Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757749AbYFXDlW (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:41:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753116AbYFXDlO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:41:14 -0400 Received: from g5t0007.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.44]:7411 "EHLO g5t0007.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752383AbYFXDlN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:41:13 -0400 From: "Altobelli, David" To: FUJITA Tomonori CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" , "James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com" , "jens.axboe@oracle.com" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:40:33 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Thread-Topic: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Thread-Index: AcjVpGjxd/vnil8WTjS1QjzdMAja+QABYbxQ Message-ID: References: <20080623160052.GA7616@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080624114527U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20080624114527U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 857 Lines: 20 > -----Original Message----- > From: FUJITA Tomonori [mailto:fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp] > > This driver creates the own device file and user-space applications > write a request data to the device file and read the response from it? Yes, though I would include that the data for the read response is supplied by the management processor. > Would it be better to use the existing infrastructure (block/bsg.c) to > do that? With bsg, you don't need to invent your fifo code to enqueue > and dequeue requests. I'm probably missing something, but I need that particular fifo code to manage the device queues. -- 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/