James wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > Actually, I happen to know that HP is in the process of > implementing this correctly (via REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC). I can't > reveal the details but it has something to do with a well > known Linux High Availability company needing SG_IO for > sg_persist to work ... > > James NAK. Please do not add this patch to cciss. We are working SG_IO internally and will post the patch soon. mikem > > > - 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
