From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: "Smart, James" <James.Smart@Emulex.com>
Cc: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux SCSI Reflector <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Attributes
Date: 16 Apr 2004 09:26:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082125583.2357.6.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3356669BBE90C448AD4645C843E2BF2802C01698@xbl.ma.emulex.com>
nOn Fri, 2004-04-16 at 08:55, Smart, James wrote:
> Think of something as simple as telling a specific instance what link
> topology type to initialize as. With the idea that you want to have this
> value persist through reboots of the system - and where the boot disk may be
> on that instance. In all the questions I've thrown about - the only
> mechanism that appears to also handle boot is to hardcode it in the driver
> and recompile the driver for the persistence.
But this isn't a persistent property of the driver, is it? It's a
property the user wants to set up and have loaded each time. That can
easily be accommodated via a user daemon and sysfs attributes.
James
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2004-04-16 13:55 Attributes Smart, James
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