Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2

Alan Cox
2004-05-29T17:38:16Z

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:28:45PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > think anyone who gets told "the major supplier of this OS has arbitarily
> > broken your software during stable releases for no good reason" is likely
> > to update their firmware.
>
> Actually, yes, I think Linux is growing enough market momentum for them
> to take notice.

If we act professionally maybe. But breaking that the way FC2 did wasnt
professional

> depending on what your after, device scanning (without any ULDs,
> including sg) is simple in 2.6; it's ls /sys/bus/scsi/devices.

and opening those is probably a 2.7 way to get rid of /dev/sg

> There's no patch to veto yet. If you redhat people are taking it out of
> fedora, then, for 2.6, there probably never will be.

That is Arjan's call. I already build Fedora 2 kernels with it removed
and I'm far from unique in that. The simple fact its an API change makes
it a 2.7 kernel thing.