Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 14/14] sas-class: SCSI Host glue

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:20:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-09-10 at 10:30 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > That's very nice for you - but lets face it, a SAS layer
> > that'll be unable to also deal with the El-Cheapo brand
> > controllers isn't going to be very useful.
> 
> If future cheap SAS controllers are like cheap anything else controllers
> then it is better IMHO to deal with it once the problems are visible. We
> *know* from experience that hardware limits will be weirder than the
> anticipated.

Yes, absolutely.  This discussion is driving far off right now, no one
is asking Adaptec to add support for competing products here, we're just
asking to not declare the host_template in the common code, and supporting
limited controllers is one of the reasons.

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