From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs attributes to scan and delete scsi_devices Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:50:15 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1057697416.1825.10.camel@mulgrave> References: <20030708134016.A32161@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nat9.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.137]:40196 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265337AbTGHUfl (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:35:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030708134016.A32161@beaverton.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: SCSI Mailing List On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:40, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > This patch against recent 2.5 bk adds a sysfs attribute to allow scanning > (or rescanning) and deletion of scsi_devices. > > It also allows scanning of entire hosts, channels, or targets. I'm not convinced we need a bus file for this. What's the reason we can't have a per host file instead? I'm thinking of the hotplug case where you know the sysfs path to the card just inserted. Translating that to a hostid will be rather hard. James