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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] scsi: Remove scsi_ioctl.h
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:05:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150109090502.GA21959@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420749302.5830.31.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 12:35:02PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> What's the transition plan for userspace?  If you look at glibc
> currently, it supplies both scsi.h and scsi_ioctl.h.  If we're
> persuading the glibc folks to go with our versions from uapi, I think
> removing a file which is an effective compile breaker for userspace is a
> really bad idea.  Duplicating scsi_ioctl.h definitions in scsi.h would
> also cause them problems.

I thought about this a whіle ago, and I think reusing scsi/*.h is a bad
idea exactly because glibc provides old versions of these.

I'd suggest adding a linux/uapi/scsi_ioctl.h instead.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-08 19:47 [PATCH 0/3] Add uapi/scsi/scsi.h Andy Grover
2015-01-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] scsi: add WRITE_VERIFY_16 to scsi.h Andy Grover
2015-01-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: Move user-shareable stuff in scsi/scsi.h to uapi/scsi/scsi.h Andy Grover
2015-01-09 10:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-09 15:27     ` James Bottomley
2015-01-09 15:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-09 15:50         ` James Bottomley
2015-01-09 16:01           ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-09 16:33             ` James Bottomley
2015-01-09 17:11               ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-09 17:44                 ` James Bottomley
2015-01-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] scsi: Remove scsi_ioctl.h Andy Grover
2015-01-08 20:35   ` James Bottomley
2015-01-08 21:26     ` Andy Grover
2015-01-09  9:05     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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