From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat LaVarre Subject: Re: SG_IO ioctl (was: mode sense blacklist how) Date: 28 Nov 2003 10:14:41 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1070039681.2319.81.camel@patrh9> References: <1068767049.2851.166.camel@patrh9> <1068768796.3fb41e1c8d075@webmail.netregistry.net> <1068775834.2851.321.camel@patrh9> <20031113181945.I30194@one-eyed-alien.net> <1068777510.2851.359.camel@patrh9> <1068779468.3fb447ccc6e60@webmail.netregistry.net> <1068838908.2852.34.camel@patrh9> <1069246502.3fbb6826955dd@webmail.netregistry.net> <1069261377.2867.37.camel@patrh9> <3FBBFDFB.9010406@torque.net> <1069345927.6663.27.camel@patrh9> <3FBD679C.5010405@torque.net> <1069447873.14422.229.camel@patrh9> <1070039244.2319.73.camel@patrh9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from email-out2.iomega.com ([147.178.1.83]:28338 "EHLO email.iomega.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262794AbTK1RPL (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:15:11 -0500 Received: from royntex01.iomegacorp.com (unknown [147.178.90.120]) by email.iomega.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA852693 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:15:10 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <1070039244.2319.73.camel@patrh9> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > obsolete lk 2.0 Linux Kernel Internals M. Beck et al. ... > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201331438 I notice, the Amazon reviews of the lk 2.0 edition happen to include: 'When writing a Linux device driver, there is a "how", but there is, perhaps more important, a "how _not_" (for instance, don't do noninterruptible blocking system calls)' Serendipity. Pat LaVarre