Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs)

Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-22T10:58:15Z

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> A. Post mock-ups and pseudo code about how to change the core, discuss.
> B. Set up a scsi-cleanup tree. In this tree,
> 1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and
> all transport subsystems),

No way. Doing things from scatch is a really bad idea. See how far we came
with Linux 2.6 scsi vs 2.4 scsi without throwing everything away and break the
world. Please submit changes to fix _one_ thing at a time and fix all users.
Repeat until done or you don't care anymore.