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    [PATCH] libata: Add support for SATA attachment to SAS adapters · 80289167
    Brian King authored
    The following patch enhances libata to allow SAS device drivers
    to utilize libata to talk to SATA devices. It introduces some
    new APIs which allow libata to be used without allocating a
    virtual scsi host.
    
    New APIs:
    
    ata_sas_port_alloc - Allocate an ata_port
    ata_sas_port_init - Initialize an ata_port (probe device, etc)
    ata_sas_port_destroy - Free an ata_port allocated by ata_sas_port_alloc
    ata_sas_slave_configure - configure scsi device
    ata_sas_queuecmd - queue a scsi command, similar to ata_scsi_queuecomand
    
    These new APIs can be used either directly by a SAS LLDD or could be used
    by the SAS transport class.
    
    Possible usage for a SAS LLDD would be:
    
    scsi_scan_host
    	target_alloc
    		ata_sas_port_alloc
    	slave_alloc
    		ata_sas_port_init
    	slave_configure
    		ata_sas_slave_configure
    
    Commands received by the LLDD for SATA devices would call ata_sas_queuecmd.
    
    Device teardown would occur with:
    
    slave_destroy
    	port_disable
    target_destroy
    	ata_sas_port_destroy
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
    80289167
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