The following patches enhance libata to allow SAS device drivers to utilize libata to talk to SATA devices. It introduces some new APIs which allow libata to be used without allocating a virtual scsi host. In the context of SAS, a struct ata_port is not a physical port, but rather becomes a virtual construct. Since my last post, I have removed the dependence on the host_set struct. The following two patches depend on the qc_transport patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=112845939215286&w=2 The API is the same as the last time I posted it to linux-ide, but here is the description again: New APIs: ata_sas_port_alloc - Allocate an ata_port ata_sas_port_init - Initialize an ata_port (probe device, etc) ata_sas_port_destroy - Free an ata_port allocated by ata_sas_port_alloc ata_sas_slave_configure - configure scsi device ata_sas_queuecmd - queue a scsi command, similar to ata_scsi_queuecomand These new APIs can be used either directly by a SAS LLDD or could be used by the SAS transport class. Possible usage for a SAS LLDD would be: scsi_scan_host slave_alloc ata_sas_port_alloc ata_sas_port_init slave_configure ata_sas_slave_configure Commands received by the LLDD for SATA devices would call ata_sas_queuecmd. Device teardown would occur with: slave_destroy ata_sas_port_destroy -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - : 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
