On 08/24/05 06:04, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > SAT is the useful piece of libata that makes everything work. You can't > rip out it and still expect to do anything useful ;-) > > libata relies on SCSI's device class drivers -- sd, sr, st, sg -- to > manage devices and generate commands to service. And in turn, we rely > on SAT (libata-scsi.c) to translate device class commands into ATA commands. > > If the SAT layer went away, then nothing would exist to generate > commands for libata to service. Ok, makes sense and requires minimal effort. I like it. Luben - : 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