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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>,
	"'Matt Domsch'" <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
	"'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@infradead.org>,
	"'James Bottomley'" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	"'Paul Wagland'" <paul@wagland.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-al pha1
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:49:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403DA4F0.6060109@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040226074317.GC32246@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> BTW it would be really nice if the various raid controller drivers could
> come up with a joint common IOCTL api since it seems every raid controller
> driver right now has a largely overlapping but yet different set of ioctls.


Well.....   we should be moving away from ioctls for this.

For addressing raid arrays, inject REQ_SPECIAL requests directly into 
the request_queue.

For addressing elements above raid array level (such as when creating 
new arrays, etc.) there should be a character device that talks to the 
host driver.

And please let's not bring that godawful SNIA API into the kernel ;-)

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-25 23:05 [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-al pha1 Mukker, Atul
2004-02-26  2:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-26  2:44 ` Matt Domsch
2004-02-26  7:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-26  7:49   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-19 22:17 Mukker, Atul
2004-03-19 22:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-26 15:21 Mukker, Atul
2004-02-25 20:41 Mukker, Atul
2004-02-25 20:38 Mukker, Atul
2004-02-25 20:44 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2004-02-25 21:38   ` Matt Domsch
2004-02-26  2:27 ` Jeff Garzik

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