Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:03:43 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] new dasd ioctl patchkit |
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Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > As long as we backout the bogus eer > > patch before 2.6.16 all the cleanups and even the eckd ioctl fix > > can wait. But don't put this crappy interface into 1.6.16 and thus > > SLES10 so that applications start to rely on it. > ACK: Given that a) both Horst and Christoph think the ioctl interface > needs cleanup but proposed cleanup interfers with existing > functionality (cmb), and b) later cleanup would change the > user-interface of eer, we should rush neither the ioctl change nor > eer into .16 until the maintainer is back afaics. >
I don't have a patch in hand to purely back out the eer modeule. What I have is
dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl.patch dasd-cleanup-dasd_ioctl-fix.patch dasd-add-per-disciple-ioctl-method.patch dasd-merge-dasd_cmd-into-dasd_mod.patch dasd-backout-dasd_eer-module.patch dasd-kill-dynamic-ioctl-registration.patch
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