Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030223AbWBVQvp (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:51:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030304AbWBVQvo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:51:44 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33930 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030223AbWBVQvn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:51:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:51:39 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Zeuthen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Kay Sievers , Pekka J Enberg , Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Robert Love , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions Message-ID: <20060222165139.GA19223@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , David Zeuthen , Linus Torvalds , Kay Sievers , Pekka J Enberg , Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Robert Love , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz References: <1140383653.11403.8.camel@localhost> <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060222152743.GA22281@vrfy.org> <1140625103.21517.18.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> <20060222163511.GA18694@infradead.org> <1140626762.21517.24.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1140626762.21517.24.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> 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: 18 On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:46:01AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > you'd see in the relevant > > standards what scsi device types exist, or even better stop relying > > on such low-level knowledge. > > Then don't export it unless it's useful. You did break ABI, don't try to > make up stupid excuses. It's _not_ and abi break. TYPE_RBC is a valid scsi disk device that could happen on any SAM transport, not just firewire. That sbp2 altered the device type just papered over the crappy hal code as long as none of your users had one of the non-firewire rbc devices. - 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/