From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:24:37 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040529162437.GF31365@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <40B74725.90403@torque.net> <20040528172535.GD13961@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846125.2101.29.camel@mulgrave> <20040529155744.GA32621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8GpibOaaTibBMecb" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:28366 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265215AbUE2QYp (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 12:24:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040529155744.GA32621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: James Bottomley , Douglas Gilbert , SCSI Mailing List --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:57:44AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:55:24AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > This is an error. Linus has also vetoed this change. Consider the > > > Fedora kernel wrong on this point. It isnt however your SG_IO issue I think > > > > I don't necessarily regard this as an error: single attachment of ULDs > > would be very helpful. However, since the mechanics of implementing > > Its most definitely problematic - it breaks a ton of existing tools, and most of the existing tools take a device as argument, it doesn't (shouldn't) matter if that device name is /dev/sg0 or /dev/sda. After all the ioctls are the same between sg and SG_IO. --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAuLlExULwo51rQBIRAmBjAKCmJnjMsR3q4MosyI7LAjjHHt88wgCcCTAK j/KFBmhBo9SGViPech7oQfk= =vdY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8GpibOaaTibBMecb--