Re: osst changes required to move forward to block request

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:46:56PM -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
> On 02/07/2006 04:12:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:02:21PM -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
> > 
> > > But I will certainly help retire scsi_request. And anything else that is  
> > > needed to keep up with proper kernel style. Let me know what those are, if 
> > > you  would? I'll start looking at how st has changed, and will be back with 
> > > any  questions I may have.
> > 
> > right now the above is the most urgent bit.  What would be nice but not
> > required is a conversion to the sense handling helpers, similar to what
> > st got (aka using the *normalize_sense functions and then dealing with the
> > parsed sense buffer instead of the raw sense data)
> 
> Ok, so here is my first take at satisfying this request.
> Be warned, that beyond compiling, and checking that the new module
> doesn't immediately blow up, there hasn't yet been a lot of testing.
> 
> But this should allow you to comment on the changes, and move forward
> with dropping scsi_request from the kernel code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Willem Riede <osst@riede.org>

James, could you put this into the scsi-misc tree so we don't have any ULD
using the scsi_request APIs anymore?