RE: [PATCH] Perverting cciss

2007-04-05 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
James wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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

Re: [PATCH] Perverting cciss

2007-04-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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

Re: [PATCH] Perverting cciss

2007-04-05 Thread 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