Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2

Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-29T16:24:45Z

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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:57:44AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:55:24AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > This is an error. Linus has also vetoed this change. Consider the
> > > Fedora kernel wrong on this point. It isnt however your SG_IO issue I think
> >
> > I don't necessarily regard this as an error: single attachment of ULDs
> > would be very helpful. However, since the mechanics of implementing
>
> Its most definitely problematic - it breaks a ton of existing tools, and

most of the existing tools take a device as argument, it doesn't (shouldn't)
matter if that device name is /dev/sg0 or /dev/sda. After all the ioctls are
the same between sg and SG_IO.

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