Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI: possible cleanups

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:40:48AM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 03/01/05 03:14, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >>  - scsi_error.c: scsi_normalize_sense
> >
> >
> >I introduced scsi_normalize_sense() recently, Christoph H.
> >proposed it should be static but Luben Tuikov (aic7xxx
> >maintainer) said he wished to use it in the future.
> >Hence it was left global.
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I think the idea of normalized sense is very good.
> Basically the question is if LLDD would submit normalized
> sense to SCSI Core or whether they would submit a pointer
> to raw sense data as returned by the device and let SCSI
> Core decipher it.
> 
> If the former, then it should be global, if the latter then
> it should be static to SCSI Core.

Doing it in the core means less duplication and avoiding updating
all drivers.

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