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Re: [PATCH] scsi reset from user space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Sun Feb 20 19:58:35 2000

Date:   Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:54:08 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, James.Bottomley@columbiasc.ncr.com
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 12:49:48PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@columbiasc.ncr.com) recently sent
> me a patch that enables a scsi reset to be called from the user
> space. It uses an ioctl() found in recent sg drivers called
> SG_SCSI_RESET that was defined but previously did nothing.

As a sidenote: If you are developing SCSI drivers, you certainly need it. I
do at least. That's why I have such a functionality in my drivers since
quite a time. I would happily remove it in favour of a generic solution.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
GPG key: See mail header, key servers         Linux kernel development
SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG                               SCSI, Security

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