Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:17:53 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI: possible cleanups |
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:40:48AM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: > On 03/01/05 03:14, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > >> - scsi_error.c: scsi_normalize_sense > > > > > >I introduced scsi_normalize_sense() recently, Christoph H. > >proposed it should be static but Luben Tuikov (aic7xxx > >maintainer) said he wished to use it in the future. > >Hence it was left global. > > Hi guys, > > I think the idea of normalized sense is very good. > Basically the question is if LLDD would submit normalized > sense to SCSI Core or whether they would submit a pointer > to raw sense data as returned by the device and let SCSI > Core decipher it. > > If the former, then it should be global, if the latter then > it should be static to SCSI Core.
Doing it in the core means less duplication and avoiding updating all drivers.
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