Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:10:08 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christopher Hoover <ch@murgatroid.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68: Don't include SCSI block ioctls on non-scsi systems
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:08:02AM -0700, Christopher Hoover wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:57:52AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:29:20PM -0700, Christopher Hoover wrote:
> > > Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a good reason
> > > for the block system to include SCSI ioctls unless there's a SCSI
> > > block device (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD) in the system.
> > 
> > That's broken.  You can use them on ide, sd and sr currently.
> 
> OK, let's try that again.

Well, the idea of this code is that it is generic - I'd rather make it 
a standalone config option and add stubs so driver still compile with it disabled.
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