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From: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>,
	Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com,
	Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH / RFC] osst, st, sg sysfs removes
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:33:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114183314.GC1613@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301140925160.1025-100000@localhost.localdomain>

Patrick Mochel [mochel@osdl.org] wrote:
> 
> I have reservations about blindly adding a 'char' subsystem. However, I 
> think it would be useful, and encourage someone to do the leg work..

That was not my intention. A char subsystem would need to have leg work
similar to what others did for block. We do not want to create a char
directory in sysfs and start populating it quickly to solve point
problems.

One point I was trying to make in previous mail was that if a char tree
follows the semantics of a block tree and creates a back link from the
device we need to consider the issue of "sg" (i.e. possible multiple
registers with the char subsystem per device) along with other devices up
front. 

-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-14 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-09 22:21 [PATCH / RFC] osst, st, sg sysfs removes Mike Anderson
2003-01-11 12:25 ` Kai Makisara
2003-01-11 15:48   ` Willem Riede
2003-01-12 19:59     ` Mike Anderson
2003-01-14 15:26       ` Patrick Mochel
2003-01-14 18:33         ` Mike Anderson [this message]
2003-01-14 23:08           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-01-11 17:02   ` Mike Anderson

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