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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Masthan <d.mastan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: program inquiry is using a deprecated scsi_ioctl , please convert it to SG_IO
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:50:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170946255.3766.18.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8862659.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 02:14 -0800, Masthan wrote:
> I am not getting why i am getting the following DIAG message
> 
> Program inquiry is using deprecated scsi ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO.
> 
> The following snippet of linux source code clearly saying that, the above
> message is a kind of cosmetic warning message.
> 
> Do you know how to use SG_IO to overcome this problem.
> 
> The following function sayign that only 6 scsi ioctls are deprecated, out of
> 6 inquiry program is using  only 2 scsi ioctls(i.e.SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
> and SCSI_IOCTL_TEST_UNIT_READY ) . What are their equivalents SG_IO ioctls ?

Yes, see, e.g.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/sg_io.html

although SG_IO can be sent to any SCSI device, not just sg.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 10:14 program inquiry is using a deprecated scsi_ioctl , please convert it to SG_IO Masthan
2007-02-08 14:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
     [not found]   ` <868c9d9d0702202233pa206222jb9beb85d60089003@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-21 17:17     ` James Bottomley
     [not found]       ` <868c9d9d0702212229p2e1a39ek9b73813899f18645@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-22 22:15         ` James Bottomley
2007-02-22 23:59           ` Douglas Gilbert

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