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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ->emulated from host template
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:00:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401060039.A16290@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406B5BC7.2080309@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:01:11PM -0500

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:01:11PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I think the comment and usage in drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c says it all, 
> but just in case...
> 
> This ->emulated exists solely to export an unneeded distinction to 
> userspace.  As you can see from sg_emulated_host() in scsi_ioctl.c, the 
> value in today's 2.6.x kernels is pretty much completely meaningless.

I agree with this change, but 2.6.x is the wrong place for it.  Please
resubmit for early 2.7.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01  0:01 [PATCH] remove ->emulated from host template Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01  5:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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