Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932230AbVJVK6V (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:58:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932228AbVJVK6V (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:58:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27583 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932226AbVJVK6U (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:58:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:58:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stefan Richter Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Jeff Garzik , Luben Tuikov , andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Message-ID: <20051022105815.GB3027@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Stefan Richter , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Jeff Garzik , Luben Tuikov , andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, Linus Torvalds References: <4359395B.9030402@pobox.com> <43593FE1.7020506@adaptec.com> <4359440E.2050702@pobox.com> <43595275.1000308@adaptec.com> <435959BE.5040101@pobox.com> <43595CA6.9010802@adaptec.com> <43596070.3090902@pobox.com> <43596859.3020801@adaptec.com> <43596F16.7000606@pobox.com> <435A1793.1050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <435A1793.1050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 15 On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > A. Post mock-ups and pseudo code about how to change the core, discuss. > B. Set up a scsi-cleanup tree. In this tree, > 1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and > all transport subsystems), No way. Doing things from scatch is a really bad idea. See how far we came with Linux 2.6 scsi vs 2.4 scsi without throwing everything away and break the world. Please submit changes to fix _one_ thing at a time and fix all users. Repeat until done or you don't care anymore. - 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/