From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] more gdth patches for your amusement Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:38:44 -0400 Message-ID: <46A26ED4.10405@garzik.org> References: <20070721203410.GA1004@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34177 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759845AbXGUUiw (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:38:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070721203410.GA1004@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig , achim_leubner@adaptec.com, Andrew Morton Jeff Garzik wrote: > This is the rest of the stuff checked into the 'gdth' branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git > > As noted before, I'm fine with Christoph's gdth work superceding mine, > or whatever. This was just me poking around. Hopefully the patches > are useful for illustration, if nothing else. Illustrating, of course, a guarantee-nothing-breaks, bug-for-bug code movement approach to upgrading the driver. It intentionally avoids cleanups along the way, other than those explicitly enumerated, to preserve as much behavior as possible (and thus reduce chances of breakage as much as possible). Jeff