On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 03:35 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> sas_hash_addr() is the spec-defined standard hashing function. Make it > >> available to drivers that need it. > > > > I'm not opposed in principle to exporting this, but I have a hard time > > understanding why a driver would need it. > > > > The hashed address is a property of the constructed SAS frames, which is > > done in libsas. The driver shouldn't really be calculating its own hash > > instead of using what libsas provides ... or is this because the hashed > > self address isn't calculated by the HBA so it needs to be programmed or > > something? > > It is needed to build the SSP frame header. > > If there is common code that does that, I will definitely use that, but > do not see any such code.
The way you're supposed to build the frame header is in lldd_execute_task(). Here, if you need the hashed address of the destination, you copy it out of the domain_device (dev field of struct sas_task). 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
