On Wed, Jan 25 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > >> And if you check the amount of completely unneeded code Linux currently has
> > >> just to implement e.g. SG_IO in /dev/hd*, it could even _save_ space in the
> > >> kernel when converting to a clean SCSI based design.
> > >
> > >Please point me at that huge amount of code. Hint: there is none.
> >
> > I'm getting a grin:
> >
> > 15:46 takeshi:../drivers/ide > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep SG_IO
> > (no results)
> >
> > Looks like it's already non-redundant :)
>
> everything in drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c is duplicate code and I am sure I
> would find more if I take some time....
axboe@nelson:[.]r/src/linux-2.6-block.git $ size block/scsi_ioctl.o
text data bss dec hex filename
2844 256 0 3100 c1c block/scsi_ioctl.o
And it's not everything that's duplicated, basically only the ioctl
parsing is. So either admit that there isn't a a lot of duplicated code,
or "take some time" and point me at it. Otherwise refrain from making
obviously false statements in the future.
--
Jens Axboe
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