Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751218Ab1EUEVg (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2011 00:21:36 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:37342 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932Ab1EUEVa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2011 00:21:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=syGwDQ6vR9FXMjSD7ewhx5Bv10VHShY+P2hmEZKo0JbGct8TqxO5nfG5xlJ3y0fyjO VkDBR6VKDRoxrBmaSd4aHXtFphTcWxxavn4k2DUl7+Joux/ZRJeS9YppI8lj08OjxH1N 1NUjVHCQDWsvywyAMFl1N+sf9aP04aWCxm+I8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DD68BE0.6030003@panasas.com> References: <1305840792-25877-1-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> <1305840792-25877-9-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> <4DD68BE0.6030003@panasas.com> From: Jim Cromie Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:21:00 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/23] use register_chrdev_ids in drivers/scsi/ To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, Doug Gilbert , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Benny Halevy , osd-dev@open-osd.org, Anil Ravindranath Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1505 Lines: 42 On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 05/20/2011 12:33 AM, Jim Cromie wrote: >> cc: Doug Gilbert >> cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> cc: Benny Halevy >> cc: Boaz Harrosh >> cc: osd-dev@open-osd.org >> cc: Anil Ravindranath >> cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie >> --- >> ?drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | ? ?6 +++--- >> ?drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c ? ? | ? ?3 +-- >> ?drivers/scsi/sg.c ? ? ? ? ?| ? ?6 +++--- >> ?drivers/scsi/st.c ? ? ? ? ?| ? ?7 +++---- >> ?4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > Do you have a git tree with all these that I can pull > and test? > I do, its at git://github.com/jimc/linux-2.6.git chrdev-pub1 branch For you, I think there are 3 patches of interest 1 - adds new call, deprecates old. if you build with this applied and CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED=y you should get a deprecated warning 2 - reimplements alloc_chardev_region() with register_chardev_ids() your driver may be using register_chardev_region(), if so this is uninteresting. 3 - patch that adapts your scsi parts. > Thanks > Boaz > no, thank you Jim Cromie -- 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/