From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
steve.cameron@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: kconfig patch to make cciss dependent on scsi for SG_IO ioctl
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:07:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176415635.3711.25.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412212741.GA10654@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:27 -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> This kconfig patch makes cciss dependent on scsi for the new SG_IO ioctl we just
> added. If cciss is built into the kernel it makes sures that scsi is also statically
> linked. If scsi is a module then cciss will also be built as a module. Please consider
> this for inclusion.
Erm, I don't think this is necessary: SG_IO is a property of the block
layer, not SCSI (as in it will work without SCSI even present). SCSI
has a special driver: the sg driver that has its own implementation of
SG_IO, but that's the only connection.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 21:27 Mike Miller (OS Dev)
2007-04-12 22:07 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-04-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] cciss: kconfig patch to make cciss dependent onscsi " Cameron, Steve
2007-04-13 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-13 13:22 ` Cameron, Steve
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