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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2/2 Use bus dev_attrs to create scsi_device attributes
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:08:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050317170853.GA3006@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111071201.5994.4.camel@mulgrave>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:53:21AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:45 -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > Any comments on this? Should I resend these patches?
> 
> Well, the basic comment is that there are a lot of features that SCSI
> has that the driver core lacks:
> 
> 1) Attribute overrides.  This is actually part of the published API for
> SCSI
> 2) Ability to add extra attributes---several drivers use this
> 3) Ability to change attribute permissions based on capabilities.
> 
> I really rather like all of these features.
> 
> Initially when we did all this work for SCSI, there wasn't much
> enthusiasm for incorporating these features into drivers/base.  You
> could look and see what it would take to do this, and propose it to
> Greg ... If he's happy, I'd have no problem moving over because now we
> won't lose any functionality.

I would be very interested in seeing the above stuff move into the
driver core.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-17 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-02 19:44 [PATCH] 0/2 use sysfs bus dev_attrs for scsi_device attributes Patrick Mansfield
2005-03-02 19:45 ` [PATCH] 1/2 remove attr_changed_internally Patrick Mansfield
2005-03-02 19:46   ` [PATCH] 2/2 Use bus dev_attrs to create scsi_device attributes Patrick Mansfield
2005-03-16 22:45     ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-03-17 14:53       ` James Bottomley
2005-03-17 17:08         ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-03-30  3:15           ` Kay Sievers
2005-03-30  4:20             ` Greg KH
2005-03-30 18:07               ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-06 20:22                 ` Greg KH
2005-03-30 18:32         ` Kay Sievers
2005-03-30 21:44           ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-03-30 22:12             ` Kay Sievers

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