From: "Andrew Vasquez" <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
To: <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Linux-Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux-SCSI" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6).
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:33:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B179AE41C1147041AA1121F44614F0B0598CEA@AVEXCH02.qlogic.org> (raw)
Arjan,
> > No. We've had this IOWR problem since the inception of 5.x series
> > driver. Software (SMS 3.0) has been built on top of the this
> > IOCTL
>
> how about removing most if not all of these ioctls ? The scsi layer
> has a *generic* "send passthrough" mechanism already for example.
>
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.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
next reply other threads:[~2003-11-06 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-06 19:33 Andrew Vasquez [this message]
2003-11-07 9:39 ` [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6) Christoph Hellwig
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2003-11-06 17:45 Andrew Vasquez
2003-11-06 17:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-07 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-06 17:11 Andrew Vasquez
2003-11-06 17:14 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-06 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-06 17:50 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-06 17:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-06 17:58 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-06 17:02 Andrew Vasquez
2003-11-06 17:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-07 9:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-07 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-05 18:39 Andrew Vasquez
2003-11-06 9:17 ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-05 1:15 Andrew Vasquez
2003-11-05 9:17 ` Mike Anderson
2003-11-06 9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-06 10:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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