James Bottomley wrote: > Actually, the first order of business is to use accessors on the command > pointers in the drivers to free them from the internal layout of the > structure (and where it is allocated). > Thanks! I totally second that. Let me look into my old patches and come up with all the needed accessors. I hope 3-5 will be enough. I will send some suggestions tomorrow. > > No, that's why you do the accessors. Convert all of the common drivers > to accessors on the current structure, then throw the switch to convert > to the new structure (whatever form is finally settled on). Then any > unconverted drivers break and people fix the ones they care about.
Last time I was able to compile 97% of drivers and convert by search-and-replace the rest. Not a huge deal. > > James > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
