From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide_scsi: allow it to be used for non CD only
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:47:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e0611291447y36430d5bta65176eb1198cdce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061129223518.19f6ef95@localhost.localdomain>
On 11/29/06, Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:05:56 +0100
> "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nowadays, you can dynamically change driver bound to a device using
> > sysfs and it works just fine for IDE, ie:
>
> This isn't the point of this change. The point is to do this at discovery
> time. If you do it later then many horrible things happen as the device
then "hdc=ide-cdrom" at a boot time should keep ide-scsi from
binding to hdc for all cases (builtin/modular ide-cd/ide-scsi)
> names and renames itself while udev goes boom.
Uh? I hope that udev people are informed
about these horrible things...
/dev/hdc stays there all the time
/dev/sr? addition/removal should be handled
by udev otherwise it looks like a udev bug
> Its a small clean patch and it'll solve the problem nicely until
> drivers/ide dies.
No strong feelings here about the patch. It is indeed a clean hack. ;)
I just wanted to point out that there are already more flexible ways
to achieve the same thing.
Bart
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-29 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-29 14:46 [PATCH] ide_scsi: allow it to be used for non CD only Alan
2006-11-29 22:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-11-29 22:35 ` Alan
2006-11-29 22:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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