linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] libsas: Allow expander T-T attachments

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Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:50:42 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>
Cc:	Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@...oo.com>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@...xyratex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] libsas: Allow expander T-T attachments

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:52 AM, James Bottomley
<jbottomley@...allels.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 21:19 -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote:
>> Allow expander table-to-table attachments for
>> expanders that support it.
>
> This is half the code to do SAS 2.0 expanders.  You seem to have
> additions from the other half (self configuring expanders) see below;
> does this mean you have a patch for self configuring expanders in the
> works?

I'd like to see that as well, but in the meantime support for the
other SAS-2 fields does not block basic operation like the lack of
table-to-table support does.

Can we also tag this for -stable?  It's akin to a pci device id update
in terms of impact.

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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