From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reimplement the SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT flag in sg's SG_IOCTL. Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:20:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20051219172015.GA13438@infradead.org> References: <20051216215447.GA25090@porkrind.org> <20051217122802.GA12725@infradead.org> <1265DA04D7476A91BFE5A61E@bluey.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5800 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932199AbVLSRUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:20:16 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1265DA04D7476A91BFE5A61E@bluey.local> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Caldwell Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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.