Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3

Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-21T21:47:35Z

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:24:56PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> Either we could provide a helper routine to do it and convert all the
> internal uses over, or we could define a new ioctl that is correctly
> unique, something like
>
> #define SCSI_TEST_UNIT_READY _IOR('S', 8, int)
> or perhaps just 0x5388
>
> and convert the internal users over to it.
>
> Opinions?

I prefer the former, something like

int scsi_test_unit_ready(struct scsi_device *sdev);

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