Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:21:07 +0100 | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: [patch] add scsi changer driver |
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On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:55:25PM +0200, James Bottomley wrote: > Looking through this, the only things I really noticed that need work > are: > > ch_do_scsi(): It looks like this has an effective reimplementation of > scsi_wait_req. We're trying to deprecate the usage of scsi_do_req so we > can make it private eventually. What's the reason you can't use > scsi_wait_req?
Probably historical reasons, I havn't tracked the scsi layer changes for quite some time, so this might simply be a 2.6 cleanup I've missed because of that. Will check ...
> ch_ioctl() (and the compat): since this is a new driver, can't this all > be done via sysfs? That way, the user would be able to manipulate it > from the command line, and we'd no longer need any of the 32->64 compat > glue.
Well, it isn't new, it already exists for many years, just not living in mainline (which I finally want to change now ...).
Gerd
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