CAM_NEW_TRAN- kernel changes ready for review
Matthew Jacob
lydianconcepts at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 05:10:14 UTC 2006
This has been updated after I found I'd forgotten to fill in a couple
of items (*cough*).
On 10/28/06, Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/DIFFS.CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE
>
> This covers all the kernel changes. I did not do bug fixing or code
> correction while I was at it (with a couple of obvious fixes that were
> just glaringly wrong). So, if the
> XPT_GET_TRAN_SETTINGS/XPT_SET_TRAN_SETTINGS code in each SIM was not
> perfect before, it's still not perfect now.
>
> This did a LINT+CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE compile and I'll do some actual h/w
> checking too.
>
> There's a slightly narsty issue with camlib and camcontrol's usage of
> XPT_GET_TRAN_SETTINGS- *it* doesn't know about this change. I'm of two
> minds about this- whether to just live with the breakage (which will
> mean old camcontrol and other users of camlib won't work quite right),
> or to make the letdown somewhat gentler by doing a slight reorg of the
> new tran_settings structure and the enum for 'type' so that
> CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE will just coincidentally end up with identical usage
> to old binaries.
>
> If all who are interested could, please review this and send comments
> back within a couple of days as I don't want this to stall (this is
> also a window of time I have for working on this- partly for work in
> doing Domain Validation, but also partly because one of my consulting
> gigs collapsed and I have a couple of days spare while I'm ramping up
> others).
>
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