On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:15:31PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <j...@koitsu.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:20:31PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> >4) camcontrol wouldn't address the need/interest for ahci(4) quirks to > >> >be made available. > >> > >> Why? > > > > Because camcontrol is for CAM. ahci(4) is not part of CAM. The last > > place I'd look for "poking at AHCI" (as in *actual AHCI*) is camcontrol. > > > > This is one of the reasons sysctl exists -- it's a sort of "covers > > everything" tree, on a per-device basis. > > Just on this point, these quirks aren't actually quirks of ahci(4) are > they? They are quirks of the disks that are attached to ahci(4), and > presumably should apply regardless of whether the disk in question is > hooked up to ahci(4), siis(4) or even mps(4).
There are two patches: one prints ada(4) (disk) quirks, the other prints ahci(4) (controller) quirks. These are two separate/unrelated things. > To my mind, this means the quirks should belong to da(4), or at the > very least ada(4). ada(4) and da(4) are both manipulated by CAM, so > having this in camcontrol seems logical to me. To clarify, my mind is > completely oblivious of how all this is implemented in software, so > perhaps my mind needs to be changed rather than the code! -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
