Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:37:03 PDT, Luben Tuikov said:

> When it comes down to it SCSI Core is 20 years behind and thus Linux Storage
> is 20 years behind.

Hmm.. 20 years ago I was hooking Fujitsu Super-Eagles to Sun3/280 servers.
If you're going to claim that the current SCSI core is *that* far behind, you're
going to have to back it up.  Remember that making exaggerated claims is a good
way to make people not listen to the *rest* of your message.

Seen in include/scsi/scsi.h:

        /*
         * FIXME: bit0 is listed as reserved in SCSI-2, but is
         * significant in SCSI-3.  For now, we follow the SCSI-2
         * behaviour and ignore reserved bits.
         */

So obviously, it's at least the number of years since SCSI-3 was defined,
but no more than the time since SCSI-2.  According to http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html
SCSI-2 devices started showing up in 1988, and X3.131-1994 came out in 1994.
1996 saw the first SCSI-3 proposals.

I'll give you *one* decade, but not two. :)

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