From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: FUJITA Tomonori Subject: Re: [RFC] bsg documentation for SAS SMP pass-through Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:08:20 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20110805.140820.1305564732068177438.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> References: <4E38A927.5080101@interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from tama50.ecl.ntt.co.jp ([129.60.39.147]:63051 "EHLO tama50.ecl.ntt.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755408Ab1HEFrI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:47:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E38A927.5080101@interlog.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dgilbert@interlog.com Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:49:27 -0400 Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Seems as though there are multiple bsg pass-throughs but > hardly any documentation (please correct me if I am wrong). > For example, in the kernel source Documentation sub-tree > "bsg" is only mentioned in one file: > scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt > and that is only a passing reference. > > So I will start the ball rolling with some documentation > of using the bsg pass-through for the SAS Serial Management > Protocol (SMP). SMP is mainly used to access and control > SAS expanders. See the attached file. Can we put this under Documentation/scsi now? Hopefully, we would move the bsg part of this into Documentation/block and improve it. Thanks,