Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] remove IDESCSI_SG_TRANSFORM (compile fix) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 02 Dec 2002 22:22:04 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:44:35PM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote: > > Thanks for catching this Christoph I thought the only use was inside > > SCSI. I could make a patch to scsi-misc to add tag back in. Another > > option if it is still needed is to switch to "->name == "generic"). > > > > Though I have not used this interface I thought if one was using an sg > > device to a ide-scsi device and the flag was set that sg commands that > > where not 100% the same as ATAP commands where translated. > > Well, imho IDESCSI_SG_TRANSFORM is broken in 2.5. Now that ever block > driver implements the sg ioctls a sg request can come from sd or sr > aswell.
Quite possibly, but newer drivers that might used sd/sr via the new API's should also know about the newer standards. Older sg users are not always so bright.
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