From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-al
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:49:04 -0500
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>, 'Matt Domsch' <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>, 'James Bottomley' <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 'Paul Wagland' <paul@wagland.net>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> BTW it would be really nice if the various raid controller drivers could
> come up with a joint common IOCTL api since it seems every raid controller
> driver right now has a largely overlapping but yet different set of ioctls.


Well.....   we should be moving away from ioctls for this.

For addressing raid arrays, inject REQ_SPECIAL requests directly into 
the request_queue.

For addressing elements above raid array level (such as when creating 
new arrays, etc.) there should be a character device that talks to the 
host driver.

And please let's not bring that godawful SNIA API into the kernel ;-)

	Jeff