Re: [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess

James Bottomley
2006-08-06T18:19:14Z

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:13 +0200, 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.

I'm assuming the model you want to use is megaraid_sas, which only has a
couple of defined ioctls?

> Please send this to Linus for 2.6.19 so that the ioctls don't make it
> into a release.

OK, provided you take the lead in sorting out the ioctl infrastructure
for this driver ...

James