From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] hptiop: backout ioctl mess Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:18:52 -0500 Message-ID: <1154888332.3683.231.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> References: <20060730171336.GA31646@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:32972 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751669AbWHFSTO (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 14:19:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060730171336.GA31646@lst.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: jejb@SteelEye.com, linux@highpoint-tech.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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