Re: 2.3.00p1/2.3.49: more problems concerning devfs & generic scsi

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 17:56:07 EST


> What's the realistic solution for 2.4 you are thinking about ?
>
> When use_sg > 0 and direction = NONE,
>
> 5) Or upper drivers could check user input and be fixed for not generating
> bogus commands.

That would work and long term is probably the right answer, but then how do
you deal with vendor specific commands ?

For 2.4 I think the answer is 'do what 2.2 did, dont crash but feel free to
log a warning' ?

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