From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2/2 Use bus dev_attrs to create scsi_device attributes Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:32:44 +0200 Message-ID: <1112207564.4631.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050302194432.GA9743@us.ibm.com> <20050302194553.GA9776@us.ibm.com> <20050302194647.GB9776@us.ibm.com> <20050316224551.GA21918@us.ibm.com> <1111071201.5994.4.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:27839 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262383AbVC3Scq (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:32:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1111071201.5994.4.camel@mulgrave> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Patrick Mansfield , SCSI Mailing List , Greg KH On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 09:53 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:45 -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > Any comments on this? Should I resend these patches? > > Well, the basic comment is that there are a lot of features that SCSI > has that the driver core lacks: > > 1) Attribute overrides. This is actually part of the published API for SCSI What does this exactly mean? Handle the same attribute dynamically with a different source of data? > 2) Ability to add extra attributes---several drivers use this What is missing in the driver core here? Why can't you add/remove attribute files at any time? Thanks, Kay