Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs)

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

I wrote:
>      1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and
>         all transport subsystems),
>      2. update ~2 command set drivers and ~2 transport subsystems
>      3. validate the renovated core,
>      4. fix the conceptual errors of the renovated core (as well as
>         first few discovered bugs in the implementation),
>      5. update all other command set drivers,
>      6. update all transport subsystems where resources to do so are
>         available,

Step 6 probably involves the creation of a SPI transport layer. It 
implements former SPI related functionality of the core and may receive 
former code of the core. BTW, it may be a good idea to really defer this 
to step 6 instead of doing so in step 2.
--
Stefan Richter
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