> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 8:05 PM > To: Don Brace > Cc: Martin K. Petersen; jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Viswas G; Mahesh > Rajashekhara; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Scott Teel; Kevin Barnett; Justin Lindley; > Scott Benesh; elliott@xxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] smartpqi: initial commit of Microsemi smartpqi > driver > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > >>>>> "Don" == Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> Is your interface related to T10 PQI? > > Don> We follow it pretty closely with some exceptions: - Our memory BARS > Don> includes both the aacraid SIS and PQI interfaces - We have our own > Don> config table defined. - We are using our own error data buffer > Don> schema - We are not yet supporting fencing and some other features. > > OK. I was just wondering whether it would make sense to have a libpqi > with all the spec-compliant pieces and put the "smart" in a dedicated > Microsemi driver. > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering We would prefer not to do this at this time. We do not know of any other PQI drivers that could take advantage of a PQI library. However we may end up doing this in the future. We hope that this is OK for now. Thanks, Don Brace ESC - Smart Storage Microsemi Corporation -- 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
