On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:20:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2005-09-10 at 10:30 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > That's very nice for you - but lets face it, a SAS layer > > that'll be unable to also deal with the El-Cheapo brand > > controllers isn't going to be very useful. > > If future cheap SAS controllers are like cheap anything else controllers > then it is better IMHO to deal with it once the problems are visible. We > *know* from experience that hardware limits will be weirder than the > anticipated. Yes, absolutely. This discussion is driving far off right now, no one is asking Adaptec to add support for competing products here, we're just asking to not declare the host_template in the common code, and supporting limited controllers is one of the reasons. - : 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
