From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:19:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CD76C3.2060103@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08ce01c6b44c$82b8ef70$1200a8c0@gmm>
HighPoint Linux Team wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> The hptiop just got merged with a horrible amount of really bad ioctl
>> code that is against the standards for new scsi drivers. This patch
>> backs it out (and fixes a small bug where scsi_add_host is called to
>> early). We can re-add proper APIs once we agree on them.
>
> What is the standard implemetation of private ioctls for scsi drivers?
Don't get caught.
You might try something creative like:
#define foo ioctl
More seriously see:
http://lwn.net/Articles/191653/
for a recent discussion.
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 17:13 [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-31 2:53 ` HighPoint Linux Team
2006-07-31 3:19 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2006-08-02 22:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-03 3:12 ` HighPoint Linux Team
2006-08-03 3:29 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-08-03 11:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-06 18:18 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-12 5:40 ` HighPoint Linux Team
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