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the scsi layer is using semaphores in a mutex way, this patch converts
these into using mutexes instead
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

These days ioctl32.h is only used for communication of fs/compat.c and
fs/compat_ioctl.c and doesn't contain anything of interest to drivers.

Remove inclusion in various drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

patch below marks a few scsi core datastructures as const, so that they end up
in the .rodata section and don't cacheline share with things that get dirtied
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create().  This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I also tinkered with it's sense recognition routines to make them take
scsi_sense_hdr structures instead of raw sense data.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

It seems very unlikely that this driver will go into any stable kernel
before devfs will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Here is a incremental patch which switches the driver over to
the new non-simple functions.  Compile-tested.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

This patch adds a device driver for scsi media changer devices.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>