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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@acm.org>,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: queued patches for SCSI for 2.6.24
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:34:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F9D328.4030801@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926025608.GA3899@parisc-linux.org>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:37:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Are there any const-ness worries for scsi_host_template, or plans for 
>> the future?  I do not see any other examples of the host template 
>> members getting modified.
> 
> Goodness, Jeff, you haven't looked too hard.  There's dozens of examples
> I've come across trawling the horrible unmaintained drivers.  I'd love
> to see scsi_host_template become const, but it's not happening any time
> soon, and we can address this little piece when the time comes.

Well, sure, the driver is the owner of that memory.

We're talking about common code.

If everybody agrees SHT is R/W in the core, Fujita-san's patch is fine.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26  1:00 queued patches for SCSI for 2.6.24 James Bottomley
2007-09-26  1:05 ` David Miller
2007-09-26  1:28 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26  1:42   ` James Bottomley
2007-09-26  2:12     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26  2:37       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-26  2:52         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26  2:56         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-26  3:34           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-26  3:38             ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-26  3:45             ` James Bottomley
2007-09-26  3:55               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-26  3:55               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26  4:01                 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-26  4:10                   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26  4:56               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-26 14:07                 ` James Bottomley

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