RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothe kernel

[James . Smart]

> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:07 -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> > At the SAS BOF, I indicated that it would not be much trouble to
> > translate the CSMI handler in the aacraid driver to a similar sysfs
> > arrangement. If such info can be mined from a firmware 
> based RAID card,
> > every driver should be able to do so. The spec writers 
> really need to
> > consider rewriting SDI for sysfs (if they have not already) and move
> > away from an ABI.
> 
> that makes me wonder... why and how does T10 control linux abi's ??

Agreed. The most they should be doing is defining a library interface, and
letting the library hide the system specifics (like t11 and hbaapi, who
still got parts wrong).  It also changes the argument from being a "linux abi"
to being "a defacto application/library abi". 

-- james s
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