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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



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16 13:55 Attributes Smart, James
2004-04-16 14:26 ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-16 15:03 Attributes Smart, James
2004-04-16 15:15 ` Attributes James Bottomley
2004-04-12 16:43 Attributes Smart, James
2004-04-16 12:03 ` Attributes Christoph Hellwig

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