Re: Fixing the SCSI layer

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:42:10 +0100 (BST)


> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > What problem are you really trying to solve with this?
> >
> > Firstly to make it debuggable by cleaning the code up.
>
> Well, yes, but beyond that? It'd be nice if the midlayer had some
> stability of sorts. There's already plenty of workarounds for three major
> linux kernel release levels- it'd be nice if this settled down a bit.

Until the code has been cleaned up, who knows. Linus certainly wants the
midlayer structure to die so that scsi disks become ordinary block I/O
devices and themselves call into scsi helper routines if they wish.

Alan

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