From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
"Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
"Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>,
brking@us.ibm.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
bunk@fs.tum.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Ju, Seokmann" <sju@lsil.com>,
"Doelfel, Hardy" <hdoelfel@lsil.com>,
"Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>
Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:41:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103208085.21806.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103190852.4136.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 09:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I'm strongly against adding this. The reason for that is that once an
> ioctl is added, it realistically will and can never go away.
> LSI is free to have their own fork and give that to dell; but they
> should and could have known that it wasn't going to fly. (same I guess
> for adaptec ioctls). The companies who then commit to some schedule
> realize they take a huge risk, but that is no reason to foul up the
> kernel more.
I agree. I'd like to see an agreed standard interface for dropping and
managing physical volumes and drives, as well as a standard interface
for dropping/managing logical volumes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 18:42 How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-08 20:01 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15 7:24 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-15 16:48 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-15 18:55 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15 18:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15 21:30 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-16 9:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-16 14:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-26 23:23 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-27 7:05 ` 'Patrick Mansfield'
2005-01-26 16:48 Greg KH
2005-01-25 23:37 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-26 14:48 ` Brian King
2005-01-25 16:27 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-25 16:52 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-01-21 22:11 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-21 23:58 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-06 14:20 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-06 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-04 17:25 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-01-04 17:42 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-03 23:02 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-01-03 23:40 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-16 16:51 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-16 14:27 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-15 19:42 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-15 20:22 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-10 0:31 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-09 23:37 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-10 0:03 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-09 17:31 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-09 18:00 ` 'Patrick Mansfield'
2004-12-09 14:11 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-09 17:04 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-12-09 13:27 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-09 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-08 20:49 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-08 20:36 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-08 23:26 ` Bryan Henderson
2004-12-08 19:25 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-08 17:56 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-08 19:06 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-08 14:55 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-08 7:16 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-08 14:07 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-08 15:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-08 20:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2004-12-08 20:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-08 15:59 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-08 23:46 ` Brian King
2004-12-03 17:18 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:29 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:58 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-12-03 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-03 17:11 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-03 17:14 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-03 2:04 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:10 ` Brian King
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