Jeff Garzik wrote: > Polling PMP 2.6.24 is completely unacceptable. It screws the 2.6.24 SAS > driver releases out of PMP. Not merging PMP has about the same effect for SAS, right? > I pulled your last PMP patchset, and will now endeavor to fix the API > prior to 2.6.24 merge window opening. I have a preliminary patch. The patch is pretty simple too. I'll submit after some testing but I'm not sure whether doing this right before the merge window is a good idea. I'd prefer not to support PMP on SAS for 2.6.24. > Linux high level message-submit / message-complete APIs should never > _require_ polling, even if its 100% polling under the hood. There are > far too many cases in the field where you don't have direct access to > hardware registers to poll. Or such polling would interfere with the > operation of other ports. Or any of a myriad of other reasons. I don't think that's true for actual ATA controllers but, for SAS, probably true. Is the frozen reset mechanism a headache too for SAS? Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
