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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Is it time to kill ide-scsi.c?
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:50:00 -0400
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To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>  I have attempted (below) to convert ide-scsi to the new data
>  accessors and cleanup the !use_sg code paths. Inspecting
>  the code I can see places that still assume scsi_cmnd->request_buffer
>  is a linear char pointer. Though I admit this assumption is hidden
>  behind a flag "test_bit(PC_TRANSFORM, &pc->flags)". Is this an indication
>  that this drivers no longer works? What is needed in order to kill this
>  driver? If no killing is done than please accepted below patch.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

This is a very popular driver for some configurations.  I know many 
people that used this for their ATAPI driver, rather than 
ide-{cdrom,floppy,...}

	Jeff