On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:48:18PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > This flag denotes local attachment of the phy. There are two problems > with it: > > 1) It's actually redundant ... you can get the same information simply > by seeing whether a host is the phys parent > 2) we condition a lot of phy parameters on it on the false assumption > that we can only control local phys. I'm wiring up phy resets in the > aic94xx now, and it will be able to reset non-local phys as well. > > I fixed 2) by moving the local check into the reset and stats function > of the mptsas, since that seems to be the only HBA that can't > (currently) control non-local phys. You can of course do the reset and stats using the normal smp code from libsas for fusion aswell. I just added the flag as a quick hack because I was waiting for the libsas merge to implement this instead of adding a mptsas-specific implementation. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
