From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750735AbWDXMVD (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:21:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750739AbWDXMVD (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:21:03 -0400 Received: from mail-gw2.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.42]:40678 "EHLO aimspam2.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735AbWDXMVC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:21:02 -0400 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1145881477-2058-62-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://192.168.92.161:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Subject: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:21:00 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Thread-Index: AcZCsv/B8NzQ1nn/QDC/U+m8qk7CyAgNyuqQASugt5A= From: "Leubner, Achim" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=3.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.11321 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there any news on that? Can we use the scsi_get/put_command() functions for allocating a "struct scsi_cmnd" or should we allocate it with kmalloc() or somehow like that? Or, Christoph, did you already make the second patch for the gdth driver? We want to bring the gdth driver up to date as soon as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Achim ======================= Achim Leubner Software Engineer / RAID drivers ICP vortex GmbH / Adaptec Inc. Phone: +49-351-8718291 -----Original Message----- From: Leubner, Achim Sent: Dienstag, 18. April 2006 16:41 To: 'Christoph Hellwig'; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Hi all, The patch looks good for 2.6.17-rc1. Christoph, did you already make the second patch for the real switchover? Will only the scsi_allocate_request()/scsi_do_req()/scsi_release_request() be removed in the next kernel releases? - I'm wondering if I could use the scsi_get_command()/scsi_put_command() functions to get a Scsi_Cmnd struct. and to send it to the gdth_queuecommand()/gdth_next(). I'm willing to make and test the second patch but please give me some hints what functions you plan to kill and what function we can still use. Thanks & Regards, Achim ======================= 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.