From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH / RFC] osst, st, sg sysfs removes Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:33:14 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030114183314.GC1613@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20030112195901.GC1414@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Mochel Cc: Willem Riede , Kai Makisara , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Douglas Gilbert 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