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From: "HighPoint Linux Team" <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: jejb@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016101c6d62d$fc6e3070$1200a8c0@GMM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1154888332.3683.231.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:13 +0200, 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.
> 
> I'm assuming the model you want to use is megaraid_sas, which only has a
> couple of defined ioctls?
> 
> > Please send this to Linus for 2.6.19 so that the ioctls don't make it
> > into a release.
> 
> OK, provided you take the lead in sorting out the ioctl infrastructure
> for this driver ...
> 
> James
> 

Is there a suggested solution now? We just want RAID management
functions to work on this driver. Is it ok to use register_chrdev()
for the management interface like megaraid_sas?

HighPoint Linux Team


      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12  5:40 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
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 [this message]

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