Re: [BK PATCH] PCI reorg fix

James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com)
Thu, 09 May 2002 14:26:31 -0400


mochel@osdl.org said:
> Implementing the generic code is ~5 minutes work. However, it will
> break everything. OTOH, it would be the best motivation for
> modernizing these drivers...

greg@kroah.com said:
> Eeek, the scsi drivers? They haven't even started moving to the > 2
> years old pci interface yet! :)

It took several years to eliminate the old error handler, too...

If something's already broken, does it really matter how many pieces it's in?

There a siesmic changes coming to the scsi layer anyway, particularly if we
want to implement the new tag queuing code. The consistent alloc is virtually
a simple conversion recipe, so it shouldn't be too difficult to tack this
small change on to a set of much bigger ones.

James

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