From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932725AbWCJLEs (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:04:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932727AbWCJLEr (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:04:47 -0500 Received: from mail-gw3.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.36]:39900 "EHLO mail-gw3.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932724AbWCJLEp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:04:45 -0500 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:04:41 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Thread-Index: AcZCsv/B8NzQ1nn/QDC/U+m8qk7CyABfxnKQ From: "Leubner, Achim" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We are willing to test the changes. Could you please send the latest patch to me? Thanks, Achim Leubner ======================= Achim Leubner Software Engineer / RAID drivers ICP vortex GmbH / Adaptec Inc. Phone: +49-351-8718291 -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@lst.de] Sent: Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 14:20 To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Leubner, Achim Subject: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Hi folks, the gdth driver is the only driver using (and in this case abusing) the scsi_request interface we plan to kill for 2.6.17. I've sent a patch that's a first step to convert the driver away from it a few weeks ago but didn't get any response. I urgently need testers to keep the driver for 2.6.17+. Else it'll be marked broken until we get a person to help testing the changes needed to resurrect it.