Re: [GIT PULL v2 00/27] block, scsi: final compat_ioctl cleanup

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 12:24:53 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:17 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My plan was originally to keep the SCSI and block parts separate.
> This did not work easily because of interdependencies: I cannot
> do the final SCSI cleanup in a good way without first addressing the
> CDROM ioctls, so this is one series that I hope could be merged through
> either the block or the scsi git trees, or possibly both if you can
> pull in the same branch.

I have included the branch in my y2038 branch now, it should show up
in the following linux-next snapshots, but I'm still hoping for the block
or scsi maintainers to merge the pull request into their trees for v5.6

Jens, James, Martin:

Any suggestion for how this should be merged?

Arnd