Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2

Alan Cox
2004-05-29T16:42:47Z

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > never include source code. The whole point of sg is arbitary management of
> > devices.
>
> *AND SG_IO IS THAT*. You seem to ignore that consistently.

Unfortunately my devices randomly change name according to what is loaded

> those commands, with the same ioctl. THAT changed. Don't tell me that very
> long list of third party apps ALL doesn't take a device as argument....
> undoubtedly several don't but... "long list"...

I had to recompile my kernel to flash my scsi drive firmware. It works
in the generic kernel but not in 2.6.5-Fedora. That alone says its not
an acceptable change for a "stable" kernel tree - which hopefully 2.6.x
will become in the next six months.

(If you want to argue about 2.7.x then its somewhat different - if scsi
devices appear in sysfs and the sysfs nodes also support SG_IO then the
entire notion of /dev/sg could go away in 2.7)