Re: What layer are "transport classes" in?

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James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:13 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Looking at the scsi_transport_*.c files...  Are these part of the lower layer 
>> or the midlayer?  I _think_ these exist primarily to expose information about 
>> the lower layers through sysfs, but I'm very fuzzy on this...
> 
> They're part of the mid layer (the lower layer is simply all the
> drivers).
  ^^^^^^^
>> Should they be documented as part of the lower layer or the midlayer or are 
>> they their own area...?
> 
> They should be documented on their own.  They're basically service
> libraries and sysfs export helpers for drivers.
                                         ^^^^^^^
(Rob, in case it's not already clear from context, James is referring
with "drivers" only to low-level drivers here, not to the high-level
drivers sd, sg, sr, st, osst, ch.)
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