From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add bidi support for block pc requests Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:54:32 +0300 > James Bottomley wrote: > > Actually, the first order of business is to use accessors on the command > > pointers in the drivers to free them from the internal layout of the > > structure (and where it is allocated). > > > Thanks! I totally second that. Let me look into my old patches and come > up with all the needed accessors. I hope 3-5 will be enough. > I will send some suggestions tomorrow. > > > > No, that's why you do the accessors. Convert all of the common drivers > > to accessors on the current structure, then throw the switch to convert > > to the new structure (whatever form is finally settled on). Then any > > unconverted drivers break and people fix the ones they care about. > > Last time I was able to compile 97% of drivers and convert by search-and-replace > the rest. Not a huge deal. We need to remove the non-use-sg code in the drivers and convert them. So it's a bit more complicated than search-and-replace. - 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
