From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>,
dougg@torque.net, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi-misc-2.5 remove scsi_scan.c EVPD code
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:26:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030505092614.A7831@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052151252.1888.15.camel@mulgrave>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:14:10AM -0500
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:14:10AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> I think the sysfs write API is sufficient, so it has to be a rw-r-r file
> to allow root to write it on hotplug.
>
If it is only ever read and written from user space, why should it be
stored in the kernel? We can just put it in a flat file or other such
database, or run the program used to get the id in the first place.
-- Patrick Mansfield
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-25 0:47 [PATCH] scsi-misc-2.5 remove scsi_scan.c EVPD code Andries.Brouwer
2003-05-05 7:58 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-05 14:17 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-05 15:52 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-05 16:14 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-05 16:26 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2003-05-05 16:57 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-05 17:01 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-05 16:38 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-05-05 16:59 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-05 17:46 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-05 22:51 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-05-06 1:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-06 4:11 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-05-06 5:58 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-06 21:11 ` Patrick Mansfield
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2003-04-25 0:22 Patrick Mansfield
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