From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 19 18:16:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA3FC7E for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from noop.in-addr.com (mail.in-addr.com [IPv6:2001:470:8:162::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D841C100E for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gjp by noop.in-addr.com with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1UTFrL-0005Xm-DW; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:16:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:16:31 -0400 From: Gary Palmer To: kpneal@pobox.com Subject: Re: New Driver for MegaRaid 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s Card Message-ID: <20130419181631.GE96431@in-addr.com> References: <1366236517.1499.31.camel@localhost> <517004AE.7070409@gmail.com> <20130419161809.GA76332@neutralgood.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130419161809.GA76332@neutralgood.org> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gpalmer@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on noop.in-addr.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false 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: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:16:35 -0000 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. 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) Gary