From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] scsi: expose AN support to user space
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:01:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187186509.3327.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C2B59A.6070200@garzik.org>
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 04:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > If a scsi_device supports async notification for media change, then
> > let user space know this capability exists by creating a new sysfs
> > entry "media_change_notify", which will be 1 if it is supported, and
> > 0 if not supported. Create a routine which allows scsi devices to
> > send a uevent when media change events occur.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
>
> if James is happy with this patch, I'm happy with patch #2 and #3
Actually, we just got a second potential consumer ... although I'll
reprod to have the reporter send it to the list. It's a device that
needs notice of report luns data changing. The proposed mechanism looks
a bit narrow now (too tied to media change). I'll see if I can propose
a more generic update.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070808190613.616085010@localhost.localdomain>
2007-08-08 19:08 ` [patch 1/4] libata: check for AN support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-08 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-15 7:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-15 16:21 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-08 19:08 ` [patch 2/4] scsi: expose AN support to user space Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-15 8:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-15 14:01 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-08-15 16:27 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-15 23:37 ` Moore, Eric
2007-08-08 19:08 ` [patch 3/4] libata: expose AN " Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-08 19:08 ` [patch 4/4] libata: send event when AN received Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-08-15 8:12 ` Jeff Garzik
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