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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add extra inquiry byte 56 data to struct scsi_device
Date: 21 Aug 2004 09:51:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093096274.2080.30.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41274814.4090903@torque.net>

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 09:03, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> What you are proposing is only relevant for the SPI
> transport. Maybe the accessors should be placed in
> scsi_tranport_spi.c and struct scsi_device get a
> a transport dependent "hang on". Then some of that older
> SPI stuff could get migrated out of struct scsi_device
> so it stops growing.

Perhaps as a long term goal.  However, getting inquiry snooping out of
the drivers is currently more important than converting all the SPI
drivers over to using the transport class.

James



      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-21 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21  1:56 [PATCH] add extra inquiry byte 56 data to struct scsi_device James Bottomley
2004-08-21  3:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-21  3:39   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-21  4:06   ` James Bottomley
2004-08-21  4:41     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-21  4:38   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-21  4:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-21 13:03 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-08-21 13:51   ` James Bottomley [this message]

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