* [RFC] 3rd Party Device Drivers need sd.h
@ 2003-10-17 20:18 David van Hoose
2003-10-17 20:33 ` Patrick Mansfield
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From: David van Hoose @ 2003-10-17 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-scsi
I have been working on modifying the SATA driver that I got from Promise
to work under 2.6.0. However, there is a conflict since it needs sd.h. I
looked and sd.h was merged into sd.c. What reasons were there for doing
this, and what changes have to be made to 3rd party drivers to
accomodate it? Please CC to me as I am not on this list.
Thank you,
David van Hoose
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* Re: [RFC] 3rd Party Device Drivers need sd.h
2003-10-17 20:18 [RFC] 3rd Party Device Drivers need sd.h David van Hoose
@ 2003-10-17 20:33 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-17 20:51 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Patrick Mansfield @ 2003-10-17 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David van Hoose; +Cc: linux-scsi
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:18:07PM -0400, David van Hoose wrote:
> I have been working on modifying the SATA driver that I got from Promise
> to work under 2.6.0. However, there is a conflict since it needs sd.h. I
> looked and sd.h was merged into sd.c. What reasons were there for doing
> this, and what changes have to be made to 3rd party drivers to
> accomodate it? Please CC to me as I am not on this list.
The bios_param call now passes a scsi_device and its capacity, rather than
a scsi_disk, it is a cleaner interface. Exporting interfaces or data
structures from sd to host drivers makes little sense.
Just delete the sd.h include, and then updating the bios_param function
should get rid of the scsi_disk or Disk reference.
Does Jeff's SATA/libata driver cover the Promise hardware?
-- Patrick Mansfield
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