From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262303AbUBXREl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:04:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262311AbUBXREc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:04:32 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:44431 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262306AbUBXREY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:04:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:04:13 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kai Makisara Cc: Linus Torvalds , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel , kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI update for 2.6.3 Message-ID: <20040224170412.GA31268@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:30:01AM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, James Bottomley wrote: > >> > >> Kai Mäkisara: > >> o Sysfs class support for SCSI tapes > > > >Has this been checked for correctness, or will Al flame me to a crisp for > >accepting it? Pls verify.. > > It is using the class_simple interface Greg KH said can be used without > changes to driver's lifetime rules. If this is not true, then I have to > rework the patch. The code was posted to linux-scsi on Feb 5 but I would > not count on any serious review being done there. Can you post it here so we can review it? And yes, using class_simple should relieve you of Al flamage :) thanks, greg k-h