<lots of useless rants snipped> Yes, we have two cases, local phy and phy on an expander. The proper way to support remote phys is via smp passthru as we hopefully agree. Right now the sas transport class doesn't do smp passthru (although I'm working on it) so we only implement local link stats. Once we have smp passthru we can support link stats, in one of two ways: - do it in userland as in your example program. in that case we don't need to do anything in kernel land and need the local_attached flag to disable this functionality for expander phys. - do it in kernel, in which case the transport class must call the smp passthru entry point of the driver to query link stats, so it needs the local_attached flag aswell for that. What's your problem with the flag now? - : 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
