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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Promise 'stex' driver
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 17:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Since _no individual SCSI driver_ uses the block layer
> tagging, it is likely that some instability and core kernel
> development
> will occur, in order to make that work.

That's not quite true: 53c700 and tmscsim both use it ... I could with
the usage were wider, but at least 53c700 has pretty regular and
constant usage ... enough I think to validate the block tag code (it's
been using it for the last three years).

James