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    [SCSI] osst: changes required to move forward to block request · 5e6575c0
    Willem Riede authored
    On 02/07/2006 04:12:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:02:21PM -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
    >
    > > But I will certainly help retire scsi_request. And anything else that is
    > > needed to keep up with proper kernel style. Let me know what those are, if
    > > you  would? I'll start looking at how st has changed, and will be back with
    > > any  questions I may have.
    >
    > right now the above is the most urgent bit.  What would be nice but not
    > required is a conversion to the sense handling helpers, similar to what
    > st got (aka using the *normalize_sense functions and then dealing with the
    > parsed sense buffer instead of the raw sense data)
    
    Ok, so here is my first take at satisfying this request.
    Be warned, that beyond compiling, and checking that the new module
    doesn't immediately blow up, there hasn't yet been a lot of testing.
    
    But this should allow you to comment on the changes, and move forward
    with dropping scsi_request from the kernel code.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem Riede <osst@riede.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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