Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:30:21 -0400 |
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:37:03 PDT, Luben Tuikov said:
> When it comes down to it SCSI Core is 20 years behind and thus Linux Storage > is 20 years behind.
Hmm.. 20 years ago I was hooking Fujitsu Super-Eagles to Sun3/280 servers. If you're going to claim that the current SCSI core is *that* far behind, you're going to have to back it up. Remember that making exaggerated claims is a good way to make people not listen to the *rest* of your message.
Seen in include/scsi/scsi.h:
/* * FIXME: bit0 is listed as reserved in SCSI-2, but is * significant in SCSI-3. For now, we follow the SCSI-2 * behaviour and ignore reserved bits. */
So obviously, it's at least the number of years since SCSI-3 was defined, but no more than the time since SCSI-2. According to http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html SCSI-2 devices started showing up in 1988, and X3.131-1994 came out in 1994. 1996 saw the first SCSI-3 proposals.
I'll give you *one* decade, but not two. :)
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