Re: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map )

["Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>]

>> = ???
>  = Patrick Mochel
>> I think the qualification for appearing in driverfs is actually possessing a 
>> driver.  Therefore, we accept FC and iSCSI.  Things which appear as 
>> FileSystems are debatable, but not anything which has a real device driver.
>
>The qualification for appearing in the device tree is the physical 
>presence of the device, regardless of the presence of a driver to control 
>it. (This typically depends on the presence of the bus driver so it can 
>discover the device.) Presence in the device tree implies presence in 
>driverfs.

	Lots of "soft" drivers, from /dev/lop to FC and iSCSI could
be simplified by using the struct device <--> struct device_driver
rendezvous code.  Under Patrick's propoposed, policy, we would not be
able to get the simplifications in scsi.c, usb.c, or anything else that
could possibly drive a device that was too "soft" for Patrick.

	It is also important for supporting hot plugging that user level
facilities understand that if ide disk #7 was removed that that
poisons /dev/loop/7.

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