> > > > but why didn't CSMI specify the library interface then? If it did that, > > then none of the "ioctls are deprecated for 3 years now" would have come > > as a surprise. Or rather, it maybe would have, but it wouldn't have > > mattered to the management app. > > > > I asked one of the authors, Steve Fairchild, about this. He said that > they had had a bad experience with HBAAPI, the FC library. > They had a > lot of problems with vendors keeping the library up to date that's not too hard (and up to date is relative) > , multiple > vendors shipping multiple incompatible versions, etc. which sounds like they didn't get the spec right.. if the spec was good that couldn't happen at all... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
