Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:46:01AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > you'd see in the relevant
> > standards what scsi device types exist, or even better stop relying
> > on such low-level knowledge.  
> 
> Then don't export it unless it's useful. You did break ABI, don't try to
> make up stupid excuses.

It's _not_ and abi break.  TYPE_RBC is a valid scsi disk device that could
happen on any SAM transport, not just firewire.  That sbp2 altered the
device type just papered over the crappy hal code as long as none of your
users had one of the non-firewire rbc devices.

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