From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932222AbWDROlG (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:41:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932211AbWDROlG (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:41:06 -0400 Received: from mail-gw2.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.42]:30181 "EHLO aimspam2.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932154AbWDROlE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:41:04 -0400 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1145371454-26317-198-0 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: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:41:02 +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+m8qk7CyAgNyuqQ 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 3.0.11010 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.