Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2

Alan Cox
2004-05-29T15:57:52Z

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
it also doesn't do what you think. Try this for size

insmod scsidriver
open /dev/sg0 (a hard disk)
insmod sd

Apps should migrate to the new facilities when possible but its definitely
not a good idea to make this change