On 09/30/05 19:57, Jeff Garzik wrote:Luben Tuikov wrote:MPT-based drivers + James Bottomley's "transport attributes"
You continue to fail to see that a transport class is more than just transport attributes.
You continue to fail to see that working on transport class support IS a transport layer, that includes management.
Is you don't understand this fundamental stuff, how can we expect you to get it right?
From what I see, because of its *layering* positionJB's "transport attributes" cannot satisfy open transport.
The reason is that MPT-based drivers indeed do need host template
in the LLDD.
Open Transport (SBP/USB/SAS) do not, since the chip is only
an interface to the transport.
The host template is implemented by a transport layer,
say USB Storage or the SAS Transport Layer.