On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:22 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In addition to the basic SCSI core objects this transport class introduces > two additional intermediate objects: The SAS PHY as represented by struct > sas_phy defines an "outgoing" PHY on a SAS HBA or Expander, and the SAS > remote PHY represented by struct sas_rphy defines an "incoming" PHY on a > SAS Expander or end device. Note that this is purely a software concept, the > underlying hardware for a PHY and a remote PHY is the exactly the same.
My only real comment is that an outgoing PHY should probably exist in a separate class because that concept is common to SATA, so the class should be shareable between sas/sata. What you call a sas_rphy, when it's an expander input is the thing we're going to want to attach an SMP tap to for the management tools (eventually). > I think this submission is ready for 2.6.14, but additional comments are > of course very welcome. Hmm ... OK ... we can try this in rc-fixes at first. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
