Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:54:01 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: jonny@jonny.eng.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rolling CAM in, what is still needed? Message-ID: <199806190354.VAA10250@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199806190002.VAA15043@roma.coe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Jun 18, 98 09:02:45 pm"
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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote... > #define quoting(Kenneth D. Merry) > // One other area that could use some work/help is userland > // application porting. So far, we have: > > Isn't it possible to do a compatibility layer in CAM ? Changes in > API are always a PITA. Yeah, in fact I even had a SCIOCCOMMAND implementation for the passthrough driver early on. I would much rather, however, move applications over to the new API. It isn't that hard to use. I know that changes in API can be a PITA, I had to port a very large application from the old scsireq/SCIOCCOMMAND system to the new passthrough driver. We can't keep old API's around forever for no particular reason, so I'd rather go ahead and port things. In any case, most of the major consumers of the old SCSI passthrough facilities have been ported. cdd and SANE have not, but my guess is that there aren't many more than that. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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