From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [patch] add scsi changer driver Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:42:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1110184955.5410.1.camel@mulgrave> References: <20050215164245.GA13352@bytesex> <20050215175431.GA2896@infradead.org> <20050216143936.GA23892@bytesex> <1110131725.9206.25.camel@mulgrave> <20050307082107.GC17704@bytesex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050307082107.GC17704@bytesex> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gerd Knorr Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:21 +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > Probably historical reasons, I havn't tracked the scsi layer changes for > quite some time, so this might simply be a 2.6 cleanup I've missed > because of that. Will check ... OK, Thanks. > > ch_ioctl() (and the compat): since this is a new driver, can't this all > > be done via sysfs? That way, the user would be able to manipulate it > > from the command line, and we'd no longer need any of the 32->64 compat > > glue. > > Well, it isn't new, it already exists for many years, just not living in > mainline (which I finally want to change now ...). OK, so could you look at doing the sysfs conversions? These are required before the driver goes in. I can help you when I get back from holiday (in about a week's time). James