From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] add scsi changer driver
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:42:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110184955.5410.1.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050307082107.GC17704@bytesex>
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:21 +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Probably historical reasons, I havn't tracked the scsi layer changes for
> quite some time, so this might simply be a 2.6 cleanup I've missed
> because of that. Will check ...
OK, Thanks.
> > ch_ioctl() (and the compat): since this is a new driver, can't this all
> > be done via sysfs? That way, the user would be able to manipulate it
> > from the command line, and we'd no longer need any of the 32->64 compat
> > glue.
>
> Well, it isn't new, it already exists for many years, just not living in
> mainline (which I finally want to change now ...).
OK, so could you look at doing the sysfs conversions? These are
required before the driver goes in. I can help you when I get back from
holiday (in about a week's time).
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-07 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-15 16:42 [patch] add scsi changer driver Gerd Knorr
2005-02-15 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-16 14:39 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-03-06 17:55 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-07 8:21 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-03-07 8:42 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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