From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:14:56 +0000 Subject: Re: class_device/udev support for tapes? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel