On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Actually, you're making it less clear. Sorry - I've rewritten it to reflect your take on it. > > What this option is doing is allowing the smp utilities to send SMP > frames to interrogate the HBA. Setting (or not setting) this option has > no effect on the SAS expanders. Essentially, it allows the HBA ports to > be treated the same as the expander ports from the point of view of a > software management tool. Word smithed so it N=now reads: + Selecting this option builds an SMP interpreter into libsas. + This allows SAS Management Protocol (SMP) utilities to send + SMP frames to interrogate the HBA. Essentially, this allows + SMP utilities to treat HBA ports the same as SAS Expander + Ports. + + For more details on the Management Upper Layer see: + http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/sas/tutorials.html + + Say N here if you want to save the few kb this consumes. Attached as a patch file again but I can re-send in proper format if you prefer. > >> + For more details see: >> + http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/sas/tutorials.html > > It's not the whole of this, just the Management upper layer. > >> + http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/pub/sm/hba/04-373v0.pdf > > This latter one is the HBA API ... it's not really anything to do with > SMP. *nod* dropped the second URL. thanks, grant
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