Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263786AbTKFTdc (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:33:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263787AbTKFTd2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:33:28 -0500 Received: from [198.70.193.2] ([198.70.193.2]:46420 "EHLO AVEXCH01.qlogic.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263786AbTKFTdY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:33:24 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6). Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:33:28 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6). Thread-Index: AcOkj+gF5A+Vh7P2Q4WyTG/HmlakdgACNKLQ From: "Andrew Vasquez" To: Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Linux-Kernel" , "Linux-SCSI" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Nov 2003 19:33:29.0088 (UTC) FILETIME=[DAE63800:01C3A49C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 24 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/