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Re: SCSI sub-system changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Viro)
Fri Nov 12 12:09:15 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:55:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@724.com>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Alexander,
> Did you think of posting an alert to the linux-scsi list about the
> changes to the mid-level and most of the low level drivers?
My fault. Changes were in interaction with procfs. Which was _badly_ broken.
From the drivers' POV the only change being: forget about proc_dir_entry,
leave ->proc_dir initialized with NULL and set ->proc_name to the string
constant (name of subdirectory in /proc/scsi). All you need to care about
is that any pair of drivers that can happen on the same box must have
different ->proc_name. _Always_ had to. So Amiga ESP-based cards went from
/proc/scsi/esp to /proc/scsi/esp-<driver_name>.
Another change: SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN returns host_no in place of driver
type.
> I know of one very frustrated maintainer (who works for a HBA
> manufacturer) who has been wondering why his patches have
> now been ignored for the 4th time. Is there a patch "lock" on
> the SCSI sub-system in 2.3 ?
No idea. Ask Linus and Alan.
Al
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