On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:00:03PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > On 10/19/05 16:08, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > > Luben: He is adding support for linkerrors and link/phy reset; > > these for for CSMI/SDI API. > > > > Can you in your driver retreive link errors for the links on the expanders? > > Yes. (offloaded to user space) > > You use the user space program called "expander_conf.c" to > send SMP requests and receive SMP responses. Yes, exactly. On the other hand we don't have standard hardware-indepent ways of doing that for the PHYs of the HBA because the programming interfaces are to different and need to abstract it away in the kernel. That's why I need the local_attached flag as an internal helper - it's not actually exposed to userland so the implementation - : 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
