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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:58:15 +0100
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> A. Post mock-ups and pseudo code about how to change the core, discuss.
> B. Set up a scsi-cleanup tree. In this tree,
>      1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and
>         all transport subsystems),

No way.  Doing things from scatch is a really bad idea.  See how far we came
with Linux 2.6 scsi vs 2.4 scsi without throwing everything away and break the
world.  Please submit changes to fix _one_ thing at a time and fix all users.
Repeat until done or you don't care anymore.