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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reimplement the SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT flag in sg's SG_IOCTL.
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:20:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051219172015.GA13438@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265DA04D7476A91BFE5A61E@bluey.local>

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0800, David Caldwell wrote:
> >scsi_request is hopefully not going to survive 2.6.16 so at this point
> >this patch is not interesting in this form.
> 
> Have you started this work yet? I can re-implement the patch in the latest 
> code base if you can point me to it.

In James' scsi-misc tree the work is almost done.  All drivers but osst
and gdth are not using scsi_request anymore.  Any implementation that
support the block/scsi_ioctl.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c SG_IO implementations
in that tree should be fine with when scsi_request is finally gone.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-16 21:54 [PATCH] Reimplement the SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT flag in sg's SG_IOCTL David Caldwell
2005-12-17 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-19  2:44   ` David Caldwell
2005-12-19 17:20     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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