From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264119AbTKGWC0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:02:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264294AbTKGWAA (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:00:00 -0500 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:49169 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263988AbTKGJjC (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 04:39:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:39:00 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6). Message-ID: <20031107093900.C1992@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Vasquez , arjanv@redhat.com, Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:33:28AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:33:28AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > I'm not entirely clear on what you are alluding to here, are you > referring to SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND? There's significantly more > functionality embedded within the IOCTLs than simply sending passthrus > to devices. Also, all of QLogic's drivers (linux, solaris, windows) > implement to this 'external ioctl' spec, making changes to Linux alone > would difficult. I thought you had a hba lib to abstract the difference away? Once again the proper solution would be to just exclude all the ioctl mess for a kernel build, if your HSV IHV and other three letter acronym partners need the broken API they can patch it in again.