Re: [GIT PULL] isci merge candidate

From: Douglas Gilbert
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 23:41:41 EST


On 11-05-16 08:47 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Dan Williams<dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At a minimum It would require a more verbose interface to
libsas/libata (or new libframe?) to allow us to deliver raw
unsolicited frames into common protocol handlers.

...which is where SAS and SATA have been heading for a while, anyway.
With chained SAS expander setup you have a network, if an annoying,
manually configured and routed one. Over that network you deliver
frames of various types.

For SAS-2 expanders, edit the above to:
s/manually/self/

Doug Gilbert

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