From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Trivial Russell <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI on non-ISA systems
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:53:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021109005344.A26065@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1036772421.16651.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:20:21PM +0000
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:20:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:42, Russell King wrote:
> > Probably the correct answer is to get everyone to use an explicit release
> > function and just kill scsi_host_generic_release() entirely.
> >
> > However, I'm sure other people will have differing views on that.
>
> There are three things I'd like to do in that area
>
> 1. Make a release function mandatory (and I'm happy to paste it into the
> old scsi drivers)
No. I restructured the BHA interfaces to get rid of ->detect and
->release. Makeing it mandatory is a step backwards. Not having a
default fallback is a good idea, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-09 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-08 13:46 Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-08 13:57 ` Russell King
2002-11-08 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-08 14:42 ` Russell King
2002-11-08 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 0:50 ` Mike Anderson
2002-11-09 0:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-11-09 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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