From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] add extra inquiry byte 56 data to struct scsi_device Date: 21 Aug 2004 09:51:13 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1093096274.2080.30.camel@mulgrave> References: <1093053368.3318.569.camel@mulgrave> <41274814.4090903@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:54912 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265805AbUHUNvi (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:51:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <41274814.4090903@torque.net> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: SCSI Mailing List 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