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On Nov 28, 2001 13:55 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > While we are at breaking scsi, would you take a patch to remove the > > > old-style (2.0) scsi error handling completly, forcing drivers still > > > using it to be fixed? Early 2.5 looks like a good time for that to me..> > --- ../master/linux-2.5.1-pre2/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old/aic7xxx.h Sun Mar 4 23:30:18 2001 > +++ linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old/aic7xxx.h Wed Nov 28 13:35:21 2001 > @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@> present: 0, /* number of 7xxx's present */\ > unchecked_isa_dma: 0, /* no memory DMA restrictions */\ > use_clustering: ENABLE_CLUSTERING, \ > - use_new_eh_code: 0 \ > } > > extern int aic7xxx_queue(Scsi_Cmnd *, void (*)(Scsi_Cmnd *)); What would be nice in the case of drivers that don't use the new error handling code is to add something like: #warning "Uses obsolete SCSI error code, see Documentation/2.5/scsi-error.txt" for a hint as to the reason why it no longer compiles, and a short guide on how to update the drivers. The same would be good for Jens' changes - his document could be put into 2.5/bio.txt or something, so any currently out-of-kernel coders can find it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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