Re: [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > As long as we backout the bogus eer
> > patch before 2.6.16 all the cleanups and even the eckd ioctl fix
> > can wait.  But don't put this crappy interface into 1.6.16 and thus
> > SLES10 so that applications start to rely on it.
> ACK: Given that a) both Horst and Christoph think the ioctl interface
> needs cleanup but proposed cleanup interfers with existing
> functionality (cmb), and b) later cleanup would change the
> user-interface of eer, we should rush neither the ioctl change nor
> eer into .16 until the maintainer is back afaics.
> 

I don't have a patch in hand to purely back out the eer modeule.  What I
have is

dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl.patch
dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl-fix.patch
dasd-add-per-disciple-ioctl-method.patch
dasd-merge-dasd_cmd-into-dasd_mod.patch
dasd-backout-dasd_eer-module.patch
dasd-kill-dynamic-ioctl-registration.patch

So what do we do?