From: Willem Riede <osst@riede.org>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Lee Xing <lxing@Crossroads.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI passthrough ioctl calls vs. sd/sg devices
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:42:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040424124205.GW13443@serve.riede.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404240950330.7758@kai.makisara.local> (from Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi on Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 02:58:26 -0400)
On 2004.04.24 02:58, Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>
> ...
> > In the lk 2.6 series the SG_IO ioctl is available for block
> > devices which include SCSI disks and ATAPI dvd/cd drives.
> > The SG_IO ioctl is currently not available for SCSI char
> > device drivers (e.g. st and osst) other than sg itself.
>
> SG_IO is available for st in current 2.6 (Patrick Mansfield added a few
> lines of code to st.c). Similar changes could be probably done to osst.
I'll be happy to do that (make the equivalent change to osst) if that's
the best way to complete the SG_IO support.
Regards, Willem Riede.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-24 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-21 22:04 SCSI passthrough ioctl calls vs. sd/sg devices Lee Xing
2004-04-24 4:06 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-04-24 6:58 ` Kai Makisara
2004-04-24 12:42 ` Willem Riede [this message]
2004-04-25 6:49 ` Douglas Gilbert
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