Re: [PATCH] switch scsi upper driver probing to the driver model

Willem Riede
2003-05-17T12:37:36Z

On 2003.05.16 23:59, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Christoph,
> This patch would have some interesting side effects:
> - no generic interface (apart from SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND)
> for tape devices (st and osst). While the maintainers of
> st and osst might like this, not all the user apps would :-)

I would certainly like that sg access could not "interfere" with
osst while it is in control, but there would obviously have to be
a way to assign individual devices to specific drivers (as in tape1
is handled by st and tape2 by sg). And that would have to be dynamic
(as in I did a backup on tape1 with osst and now I want to tinker
with another tape using sg). Such mechanism doesn't exist, I think.

Thanks, Willem Riede.