Re: udev does not create scsi disk entries during bootup

[Clay Haapala <chaapala@cisco.com>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Greg KH spake thusly:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Clay Haapala wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Greg KH uttered the following:
>> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:06:03PM +0530, Surekha.PC wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> 
>> >>  Request your attention for the problem I am facing. This issue
>> >>  is
>> >> urgent for our iSCSI driver inclusion to 2.6 kernel.
>> > 
>> > Getting udev to work for your devices has nothing to do with
>> > getting your iscsi driver to be included in the main 2.6 kernel.
>> > Why do you say that?
>> > 
>> > thanks,
>> > 
>> In the effort to get this iSCSI driver included into the 2.6
>> kernel, we are making a number of changes in response to comments
>> from the SCSI maintainers.  Many of these comments are regarding
>> work-arounds or designs currently in our [2.2/2.4-derived] driver
>> that should be removed or redesigned in favor of features now
>> available in 2.6.  Udev is one of those features.
> 
> Um, but what features does udev require, that any other well working
> scsi driver not require?  sysfs support?  I thought the scsi core
> would provide that for you.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Being newest to iSCSI dev, I probably shouldn't have entered the
discussion, since I'm not sure that what is needed is a new udev
feature, or rather a better understanding of udev.
-- 
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       C'mon, Rush!  Do the crime, do the time, right?


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