RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothe kernel

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 14:36 -0400, James.Smart@Emulex.Com wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:07 -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> > > At the SAS BOF, I indicated that it would not be much trouble to
> > > translate the CSMI handler in the aacraid driver to a similar sysfs
> > > arrangement. If such info can be mined from a firmware 
> > based RAID card,
> > > every driver should be able to do so. The spec writers 
> > really need to
> > > consider rewriting SDI for sysfs (if they have not already) and move
> > > away from an ABI.
> > 
> > that makes me wonder... why and how does T10 control linux abi's ??
> 
> Agreed. The most they should be doing is defining a library interface, and
> letting the library hide the system specifics (like t11 and hbaapi, who
> still got parts wrong).  It also changes the argument from being a "linux abi"
> to being "a defacto application/library abi". 

and not an ABI but an API. Which is important to allow the OS designers
deal with architecture differences better.