Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:28:12 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel |
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Luben Tuikov wrote: > As opposed to those vendors saying: We _really_ need 64 bit LUNS > and it would be really nice to get rid of HCIL, etc, etc.
Everybody agrees with this 100%
Note that James submitted a sdev_printk() patch in the past few days, which assists in removing HCIL from the SCSI core.
> IMO, 64 bit LUNs and no HCIL is more important than "transport > attributes" and should've _preceded_ them.
Agreed. But that's a lot of work, and I doubt people want to delay SAS further to wait for complete HCIL elimination.
> The fact that you're trying to umbrella them together, doesn't > make it _technologically_ correct.
It's muddled together, yes. That doesn't make it any less correct. It's just not a clean, immediate separation. Its a separation that takes time.
Jeff
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