Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2011 17:46:10 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] isci merge candidate |
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On 05/13/2011 04:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What's the likely user base of this?
Pretty big, I imagine.
> Why is it a SCSI driver rather > than SATA?
It's "server" SAS hardware, a la mvsas driver. SAS hardware is that "lovely" superset of SATA + SCSI, where SATA is one of several frame formats the device may speak. So it is definitely a SCSI driver, that hooks into SATA processing via ata_sas_* hooks and functions.
> Why is it so f&*%ing big?
1. Because it's a SAS driver :)
2. Because it used to be an ugly vendor driver, now in the process of being cleaned up, rather than a nice, clean from-scratch Linux driver.
So it's a bit of a tough call. It still needs more hammering and cleaning, but if this is what winds up on all Intel "server" boards that makes it pretty important.
Jeff
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