Re: [PATCH] Perverting cciss

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> this patch adds the SG_IO ioctl to the cciss driver.
> As the driver is capable of sending SCSI CDBs to the controller there is
> no reason why we shouldn't exploit it.
> This way we get to use all the nice sg_utils for the cciss driver.
> And a persistent device name for free.

Instead of adding yet another implementation of SG_IO please implement
support for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests and add all the nice block layer
passthrough ioctls to it.

> Makes one wonder why this one is not implemented as a SCSI driver in the
> first place.

It probably should have been a scsi driver, but it's far too late now.

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