From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willem Riede Subject: Re: [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [0/4] Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 19:19:53 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030507231953.GS524@linnie.riede.org> References: <20030505083315.GB8416@beaverton.ibm.com> <1052238508.1819.42.camel@mulgrave> <20030506172312.GA1697@beaverton.ibm.com> Reply-To: wrlk@riede.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from pcp02781107pcs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net ([68.85.61.149]:46322 "EHLO linnie.riede.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264334AbTEGXFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 19:05:24 -0400 Received: from linnie.riede.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by linnie.riede.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h47NJr3x015446 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 19:19:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030506172312.GA1697@beaverton.ibm.com>; from andmike@us.ibm.com on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 13:23:12 -0400 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2003.05.06 13:23 Mike Anderson wrote: > > Other classes to consider: > (scsi_tape or tape), (scsi_disk or disk), (scsi_gen). > I believe Greg KH mentioned something to me about why we would select > scsi_tape over tape, but I have forgot the reason. > Would that be, because ide_tape could have different attributes? In any case, there are some unique properties of onstream tapes that I would love to make available, so should osst define its own class? Thanks, Willem Riede.