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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: RE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:42:04 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:20 -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote:
> For this to happen, the applications must at lease know 'n' in host<n>,
> otherwise it will have to trigger a rescan on all controllers. Which would
> be an overkill. How about publishing the adapter class attribute as well?
> This would allow applications to correlate the adapter handle with the class
> attribute.

I don't see why not ... it's your driver, you can publish whatever extra
information you need as scsi_device attributes; that was one of the
designs of the extensible attribute system.

> Apologize for the late post, we were evaluating your feedback. It looks
> good, thanks!

Great ... so the problem is now solved and just needs to be implemented.

James