To: t10@t10.org
Cc: laurels@us.ibm.com
Subject: Addition of REQUEST LENGTH field to SMP frame
From: George Penokie <gop@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:53:32 -0500
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Some time ago a REQUEST LENGTH field was added into the SMP functions. 
However, there was no way placed into SAS-2 to for an initiator to 
determine if an SMP device supports this SAS-2 request length field 
(verses the SAS 1.1 with a value of zero in that byte).
To resolve this I will be proposing a bit in the IDENTIFY address frame 
that will indicate if the SMP device supports a length field in the SMP 
function. Any comments?
Bye for now,
George Penokie
Dept 9A8 030-3 A410
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