From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: class_device/udev support for tapes?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:14:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-107102296001994@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-107038690632125@msgid-missing>
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:09:15PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2003 19:00, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:35:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > Has anyone come up with a solution for using udev for tape devices?
> >
> > The scsi people need to add support for this into the st driver. They
> > also need to add it to their sg driver for scsi generic devices. They
> > know about this, and hopefully are working on it...
>
> Do you mean using the same device class for both the tape and sg chardevs?
No.
> Maybe I have misunderstood the current relationship between 'class'
> and 'class_interface'. I thought that both sg and tape need to be
> classes, with a scsi tape belonging to both classes and having multiple
> tape interfaces. However, scsi currently has a scsi_device class and
> registers an sg interface for that.
That's right. I mean add another class interface for scsi tapes. I
think the scsi people are working on this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-02 17:35 class_device/udev support for tapes? Arnd Bergmann
2003-12-02 18:00 ` Greg KH
2003-12-02 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-12-10 1:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
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