From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 23 06:38:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74C720F; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com) Received: from co9outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (co9ehsobe005.messaging.microsoft.com [207.46.163.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA981B34; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail10-co9-R.bigfish.com (10.236.132.226) by CO9EHSOBE003.bigfish.com (10.236.130.66) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:39 +0000 Received: from mail10-co9 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail10-co9-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135D0E04DF; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:192.19.193.42; KIP:(null); UIP:(null); IPV:NLI; H:paledge01.lsi.com; RD:paledge01.lsi.com; EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -4 X-BigFish: VPS-4(zz98dI9371I542I1432Izz1f42h1fc6h1ee6h1de0h1fdah1202h1e76h1d1ah1d2ahzz8275bh8275dhz2fh2a8h668h839h944hd25hf0ah1220h1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1441h1504h1537h153bh15d0h162dh1631h1758h18e1h1946h19b5h1b0ah1155h) Received-SPF: pass (mail10-co9: domain of lsi.com designates 192.19.193.42 as permitted sender) client-ip=192.19.193.42; envelope-from=Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com; helo=paledge01.lsi.com ; ge01.lsi.com ; Received: from mail10-co9 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail10-co9 (MessageSwitch) id 1366699116903585_17045; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from CO9EHSMHS011.bigfish.com (unknown [10.236.132.231]) by mail10-co9.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09784027E; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from paledge01.lsi.com (192.19.193.42) by CO9EHSMHS011.bigfish.com (10.236.130.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:36 +0000 Received: from PALHUB01.lsi.com (128.94.213.114) by PALEDGE01.lsi.com (192.19.193.42) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.298.1; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:38:55 -0400 Received: from PALEXCH11.lsi.com (128.94.223.42) by PALHUB01.lsi.com (128.94.213.114) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.298.1; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:38:35 -0400 Received: from inbexch02.lsi.com (135.36.98.40) by PALEXCH11.lsi.com (128.94.223.42) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.309.2; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:38:35 -0400 Received: from inbmail01.lsi.com ([135.36.98.64]) by inbexch02.lsi.com ([135.36.98.40]) with mapi; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:08:31 +0530 From: "Desai, Kashyap" To: Gary Palmer , "kpneal@pobox.com" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:08:30 +0530 Subject: RE: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card Thread-Topic: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card Thread-Index: Ac49KhDyvCCrpayUTUumlVnRql0X9QCwrqJg Message-ID: References: <1366236517.1499.31.camel@localhost> <517004AE.7070409@gmail.com> <20130419161809.GA76332@neutralgood.org> <20130419181631.GE96431@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20130419181631.GE96431@in-addr.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: lsi.com Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:38:46 -0000 > -----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