From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: dougg@torque.net
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge sd.h into sd.c and some cleanup
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:25:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210271425.g9REPTn10749@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> of "Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:22:03 +1100." <3DBBCC5B.50708@torque.net>
dougg@torque.net said:
> The header file "sd.h" is included in quite a few lower level drivers
> in lk 2.5.44 (at least 55) and perhaps in a couple of other
> subsystems. The reason it is included is for the "biosparam" call in
> the API of lower level drivers. Whether it is still used or useful,
> I'm not sure. [It does seem quite unreasonable that lower level
> drivers need to include an upper level header.]
There was a previous patch that cleaned all that up. I'm just completing
testing on this before putting it up.
> You can drop my credit line (shown above) from sd.c . Perhaps James
> could make a "credits" file for everyone who has helped in the 2.5
> scsi rework.
Credits are a double edged sword (If you look, you'll find there's very little
of the SCSI subsystem I actually admit to). I've just been adding them if
people included them in their patches. Some do, some don't. If you want
yours dropped, send me a patch that drops it.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-27 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 1:18 [PATCH] merge sd.h into sd.c and some cleanup Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-27 11:22 ` Douglas Gilbert
2002-10-27 14:25 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2002-10-27 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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