From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jejb@steeleye.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:55:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154559337.2861.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08ce01c6b44c$82b8ef70$1200a8c0@gmm>
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:53 +0800, HighPoint Linux Team wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The hptiop just got merged with a horrible amount of really bad ioctl
> > code that is against the standards for new scsi drivers. This patch
> > backs it out (and fixes a small bug where scsi_add_host is called to
> > early). We can re-add proper APIs once we agree on them.
>
> What is the standard implemetation of private ioctls for scsi drivers?
> Thanks.
Hi,
the real answer is: try really hard to use generic ioctls for your
functionality. What exactly do you need private ioctls for?
It's quite possible that there is a generic way to do the same thing
already, or something that can easily be extended to do what you need...
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
--
if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 17:13 [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-31 2:53 ` HighPoint Linux Team
2006-07-31 3:19 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-08-02 22:55 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-03 3:12 ` HighPoint Linux Team
2006-08-03 3:29 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-08-03 11:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-06 18:18 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-12 5:40 ` HighPoint Linux Team
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