On Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:59 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > As long as these changes are not breaking the driver.... > Your changes did break the driver, :( I just sent separate email containing the oops. > Discovery is the process of enumerating connected devices. The > transport layer will have to issue SMPs to do it, since > that's the only > defined way. However, I don't envisage making discovery > mandatory; it's > going to be in the adjunct class or library, so mptsas can > just make the > topology appear based on the SMP discovery done by the firmware. Good to hear that; e.g. that its not going to be mandatory. > > Christoph's working on the needs of mptsas, but it looks like most of > the necessary information can be obtained from the firmware pages > (except really the stuff we get from SMP_REPORT_MANUFACTURER_INFO, > which, I think, even mptsas can stand). > We can probably still consider having SMP passthru portal for such info. However it use should be limited. - : 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
