From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: sg version 4 tools Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:25:52 -0800 > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > I created a git tree for makeshift sg version 4 tools: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tomo/sgv4-tools.git;a=summary (snip) > Tomo, > Just a few points. > > While the sgv4_dd command line interface (cli) looks > sensible, it diverges from the dd command (which is > non-unix like but reasonably "fit for service" for the > function that dd performs). So even though the Unix dd > command syntax takes a while to get used to, other testers > will be most likely to be comfortable with existing dd syntax. Yeah, probably. Patches are always welcome. :) It's just a simple tool that I've used for development. > In summary, I don't think that there needs to be a > sg4_utils. As you suggest, sgv4_dd can be incorporated > into the existing sg3_utils at a convenient time. > sg v4 represents an alternate interface for a linux > pass-through and the bulk of sg3_utils already supports > 4 pass-throughs via a common code base. [The four are > linux (sg v3), FreeBSD, Tru64, Windows (from NT forward).] Agreed. Surely, I don't want to maintain sgv4_utils. I'm thinking about keeping it until we finish some experiments on sgv4 interface (like ring buffer). If you add sgv4 support to sg3_utils now, I'm happy to remove the git tree. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
