On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi All, > > this patch adds the SG_IO ioctl to the cciss driver. > As the driver is capable of sending SCSI CDBs to the controller there is > no reason why we shouldn't exploit it. > This way we get to use all the nice sg_utils for the cciss driver. > And a persistent device name for free. Instead of adding yet another implementation of SG_IO please implement support for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests and add all the nice block layer passthrough ioctls to it. > Makes one wonder why this one is not implemented as a SCSI driver in the > first place. It probably should have been a scsi driver, but it's far too late now. - 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
