On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 14:36 -0400, [email protected] 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.
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