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Subject[RFC PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Add sysfs-transport-sas
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The SAS transport class ABI is currently undocumented.

Some systemd issues have been raised for SAS device support [1], [2].

Because of this, distros using systemd may have broken symlinks, like
/dev/disk/by-path

Unfortunately it is challenging to support SAS devices as the ABI is not well
documented and is not always intuitive, so add a stable ABI definition.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3943#issuecomment-240982482
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7157

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
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I am sending this as an incomplete RFC to ensure it's the right thing to do, so
I don't bother writing the document to find it later rejected.

For now, this is just a minimal effort.

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-sas b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-sas
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6df6ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-sas
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+What: /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-<host>:<phy identifier>,
+ phy-<host>:<scsi target id>:<phy identifier>
+Date: Nov, 2018
+KernelVersion: 2.6.13
+Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
+Description: SAS PHY entry directory, which includes interfaces to control
+ the PHY, physical layer information on the PHY, and other SAS
+ fabric management information asscoiated with the PHY.
+
+What: /sys/class/sas_port/port-<host>:<port identifier>,
+ port-<host>:<scsi target id>:<port identifier>
+Date: Nov, 2018
+KernelVersion: 2.6.13
+Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
+Description: SAS Port entry directory, with constituient PHY count and
+ other SAS fabric management information asscoiated with the
+ Port.
+
+
+
+
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