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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI on non-ISA systems
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:20:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:42, Russell King wrote:
> > Probably the correct answer is to get everyone to use an explicit release
> > function and just kill scsi_host_generic_release() entirely.
> > 
> > However, I'm sure other people will have differing views on that.
> 
> There are three things I'd like to do in that area
> 
> 1.	Make a release function mandatory (and I'm happy to paste it into the
> old scsi drivers)

No.  I restructured the BHA interfaces to get rid of ->detect and
->release.  Makeing it mandatory is a step backwards.  Not having a
default fallback is a good idea, though.

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