From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] scsi: provide UAPI version of scsi/sg.h and scsi/scsi_ioctl.h Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:22:56 -0700 Message-ID: <560566D0.4010607@sandisk.com> References: <1443173264-4105-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <1443173264-4105-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" To: Paolo Bonzini , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1443173264-4105-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 09/25/2015 02:28 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Provide a UAPI version of the header in the kernel, making it easier > for interested projects to use an up-to-date version of the header. > > The new headers are placed under uapi/linux/ so as not to conflict > with the glibc-provided headers in /usr/include/scsi. > > /dev/sgN default values are implementation aspects, and are moved to > drivers/scsi/sg.c instead (together with e.g. SG_ALLOW_DIO_DEF). > However, SG_SCATTER_SZ is used by Wine so it is kept in linux/sg.h > SG_MAX_QUEUE could also be useful. > > struct scsi_ioctl_command and struct scsi_idlun used to be under > "#ifdef __KERNEL__", but they are actually useful for userspace as > well. Add them to the new header. > > Cc: James Bottomley > Cc: Christoph Hellwig > Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Bart Van Assche > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche