On Friday, March 03, 2006 9:38 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > As you can see, for a driver that provides an SMP tap, like > aic94xx then > these parameters can be got by the transport class sending the SMP > queries ... the driver doesn't need to know about it. > > James That maybe true for expanders, but what about the host adapter. The SMP hooks will not retrieve these properties for the phys directly attached to the host adapter. Meaning you can reset the link between phy on the hba, and device direct attached; e.g. SMP_PHY_CONTROL will not work for that. Thus I recommend this is needed. Eric Moore - : 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
