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old linux scsi headers
- From: Andy Grover <agrover at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi at vger dot kernel dot org>, James Bottomley <James dot Bottomley at hansenpartnership dot com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:38:50 -0800
- Subject: old linux scsi headers
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Hello glibc people,
This concerns sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/scsi/{scsi, scsi_ioctl, sg}.h
They define common SCSI values, as well as Linux's SCSI-related ioctls.
Apparently they were copied from the Linux kernel tree back in 1999, so
they're pretty stale.
I'm wondering if I should submit a patch to update these to what's
current from the Linux tree, or if maybe it wouldn't be better to have
users just directly get these as "uapi" headers from the Linux kernel
source directly?
The latter method has issues with being a breaking change for code that
relies on what's in glibc now, which may or may not be something we can
ease, but would ensure the headers would not become stale again in the
future.
What do you think about the best way to proceed?
Thanks -- Regards -- Andy