Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:08:30 +0530 From: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>, "kpneal@pobox.com" <kpneal@pobox.com> Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card Message-ID: <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED760761F5249@inbmail01.lsi.com> In-Reply-To: <20130419181631.GE96431@in-addr.com> References: <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED75E70AC49E1@inbmail01.lsi.com> <1366236517.1499.31.camel@localhost> <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED760761F4E25@inbmail01.lsi.com> <517004AE.7070409@gmail.com> <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED760761F4FBE@inbmail01.lsi.com> <20130419161809.GA76332@neutralgood.org> <20130419181631.GE96431@in-addr.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Palmer [mailto:gpalmer@freebsd.org] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 11:47 PM > To: kpneal@pobox.com > Cc: Desai, Kashyap; freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card >=20 > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:18:09PM -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:30:09PM +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: matt [mailto:sendtomatt@gmail.com] > > > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:05 PM > > > > To: Desai, Kashyap > > > > Cc: sbruno@freebsd.org; freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Kenneth D. > > > > Merry; McConnell, Stephen; jhb@freebsd.org > > > > Subject: Re: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card > > > > > > > > > > Would those only be supported by mfi, or by mrsas and mfi? > > > > Is there already a mrsasutil being planned to replace mfiutil? > > > > > > > > > New management interface will be expose by mrsas as "/dev/mrsasX". > If mfiutil has flexibility to work on "/dev/mrsasX" instead of > "/dev/mfiX" we can extend the same utility for mrsas. > > > > It would be confusing to have to use "mfi"util to control "mrsas" > devices. > > > > At the least there needs to be a different name for the utility that > > either reflects the /dev/ device name or otherwise applies to some > > kind of name for the utility. A new "mrsasutil" utility would fit the > > bill. A combined mfi/mrsas utility would as well if it had a name > > that is more generic but not too broad. > > > > mrutil? (MegaRaid ...) > > lsiutil? > > > > I'm fresh out of other ideas for names, sorry. >=20 > Make mrsasutil a hard link to mfiutil and then alter the code to DTRT > depending on which link was used to call the program. There is > precedence for this in the tree already (maybe not for this kind of > device management utility, but other bits) To change "mfiutil" to work with "mrsas" driver is possible with few devcla= ss changes in mfiutil along with other IOCTL code change, but it need signi= ficant time to analyze mfiutil code. >=20 > Gary
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