On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:58 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:55:25PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:38 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:03:05PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > In certain cases (such as ACPI) we want to be able to associate > > > > platform-specific data against the SCSI device tree. Handling this > > > > properly requires the ability to run platform code at SCSI init time. > > > > This patch adds stub functions that can be overridden if the platform > > > > defines CONFIG_SCSI_PLATFORM. > > > > > > James, any thoughts on this? > > > > Sorry, I'd thought this had all moved to libata so I'd stopped paying > > attention ... why are extra bits in SCSI necessary? > > They're SCSI as far as the device tree is concerned, so the glue > callbacks have to be registered from the SCSI layer. The only > implementation so far is for ACPI and only covers libata, but it could > potentially also be used to tie bay devices to the ofw tree on > openfirmware systems. It's hard for me to comment without seeing the scsi_platform_register code, but it strikes me that the only SCSI piece it's using is the scsi_bus ... what else is SCSI specific in there? James -- 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
