On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:51:56PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > On 08/19/05 10:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > SATA support for SAS host adapters. Especially when talking STP to a > > bridge this is a little more complicated than the current libata model. > > That doesn't mean I don't want to share code and mechanisms but it'll > > need a little refactoring at least. > > I'm not understanding what you mean here. > > If the lower level is implemented correctly, libata would > just pick up and "drive" the ATA device. Yes. But to get that to work we'll need to fix some assumptions in libata, define proper interfaces between the SAS LLDD, the SAS transport class and libata. It's doable and desirable, but it'll need some work. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html