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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit
    > > > As long as we backout the bogus eer
    > > > patch before 2.6.16 all the cleanups and even the eckd ioctl fix
    > > > can wait. But don't put this crappy interface into 1.6.16 and thus
    > > > SLES10 so that applications start to rely on it.
    > > ACK: Given that a) both Horst and Christoph think the ioctl interface
    > > needs cleanup but proposed cleanup interfers with existing
    > > functionality (cmb), and b) later cleanup would change the
    > > user-interface of eer, we should rush neither the ioctl change nor
    > > eer into .16 until the maintainer is back afaics.
    > >
    >
    > I don't have a patch in hand to purely back out the eer modeule. What I
    > have is
    >
    > dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl.patch
    > dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl-fix.patch
    > dasd-add-per-disciple-ioctl-method.patch
    > dasd-merge-dasd_cmd-into-dasd_mod.patch
    > dasd-backout-dasd_eer-module.patch
    > dasd-kill-dynamic-ioctl-registration.patch
    >
    > So what do we do?

    Looks like people still haven't agreed. If they _finally_ agree on something
    and the result is that the eer should be backed out, I will send that patch.
    Sorry... I'm just the stupid patch monkey here.

    Heiko
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