From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI hotplug support
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:07:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210142107.g9EL7IX04354@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> of "Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:37:49 MDT." <20021014203749.GA24904@codepoet.org>
andersen@codepoet.org said:
> If the user space interface were perfectly adequate, I would not have
> written this patch. User space does not have sufficient information
> to know _which_ devices must to be added or removed. The best we can
> do from user space is a full rescan of _all_ scsi host adaptors (http:/
> /www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh) using something like
The API you expose has identical inputs to the user space one.
Therefore it seems to me that your spb2 driver must already know the values to
fill in to use the API. So what's wrong with triggering a hotplug event from
this driver that causes the add/remove single device to be done from user
level?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-14 5:40 [PATCH] SCSI hotplug support Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 7:06 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-10-14 7:12 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 15:47 ` Kurt Garloff
2002-10-14 16:19 ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-14 20:41 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:10 ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-14 20:46 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-14 17:22 ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-14 17:30 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-10-14 17:39 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-14 19:11 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-10-15 0:42 ` Kurt Garloff
2002-10-14 20:37 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 21:07 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2002-10-14 21:54 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:25 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 5:25 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 15:33 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:18 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 18:22 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:45 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 19:13 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 19:32 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 19:45 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-15 19:50 ` Scott Merritt
2002-10-15 19:55 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 22:07 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-16 2:40 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-18 11:28 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 21:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 22:07 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 0:22 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 7:53 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 14:35 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 15:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 15:40 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-15 17:47 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 18:34 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:22 ` Scott Merritt
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