From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
bhalevy@panasas.com, hch@infradead.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add bidi support for block pc requests
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:54:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4641FCC8.4040600@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178722514.3695.23.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
James Bottomley wrote:
> Actually, the first order of business is to use accessors on the command
> pointers in the drivers to free them from the internal layout of the
> structure (and where it is allocated).
>
Thanks! I totally second that. Let me look into my old patches and come
up with all the needed accessors. I hope 3-5 will be enough.
I will send some suggestions tomorrow.
>
> No, that's why you do the accessors. Convert all of the common drivers
> to accessors on the current structure, then throw the switch to convert
> to the new structure (whatever form is finally settled on). Then any
> unconverted drivers break and people fix the ones they care about.
Last time I was able to compile 97% of drivers and convert by search-and-replace
the rest. Not a huge deal.
>
> James
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 2:25 [PATCH v2] add bidi support for block pc requests FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-08 18:53 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-08 20:01 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-09 7:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-09 10:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-09 13:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-09 14:54 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-09 14:55 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-09 16:54 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2007-05-10 6:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-10 7:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-10 12:37 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-10 13:01 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-10 15:10 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-05-10 15:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-11 16:26 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-16 17:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-16 17:53 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-16 18:06 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-16 18:13 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-17 8:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-17 2:57 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-17 5:48 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-17 5:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-17 8:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-17 11:12 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-17 17:37 ` Benny Halevy
2007-05-24 16:37 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-24 16:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-24 16:47 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-24 16:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-17 11:29 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-17 13:27 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-17 14:00 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-17 14:11 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-17 15:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-06-01 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-03 7:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-06-03 13:17 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-07 15:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-07 15:42 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-07 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-09 10:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
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