Re: HEADS UP for gdth driver users

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Achim,

Thanks for working on this!

On Friday, 9. June 2006 13:03, Leubner, Achim wrote:
> Attached you find a patch to remove the scsi_request interface from the
> gdth driver. The patch contains your first patch, the changes for
> removing the scsi_request interface and some changes to preserve the
> 2.4.x compatibility.
> We tested it and it should work fine. It would be great if it could be
> integrated in the 2.6.18 cycle.

Your driver also uses lots of kernel version dependent
code in the main driver file.

Please implement new kernel API functions using old kernel API
functions and put these into your existing gdth_kcompat.h file.

Rationale: Linux drivers are required to be forward compatible instead of
	backward compatible. More details per private email, if your needed.

Other issues with your patch were already raised by Andrew and Christoph.


Regards

Ingo Oeser
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