On 09/30/05 19:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Luben Tuikov wrote: > >>MPT-based drivers + James Bottomley's "transport attributes" > > > You continue to fail to see that a transport class is more than just > transport attributes. > > You continue to fail to see that working on transport class support IS a > transport layer, that includes management. > > Is you don't understand this fundamental stuff, how can we expect you to > get it right? >From what I see, because of its *layering* position JB's "transport attributes" cannot satisfy open transport. The reason is that MPT-based drivers indeed do need host template in the LLDD. Open Transport (SBP/USB/SAS) do not, since the chip is only an interface to the transport. The host template is implemented by a transport layer, say USB Storage or the SAS Transport Layer. This allows you to do great things, like layer intersection. 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
