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From: Willem Riede <wriede@riede.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] switch scsi upper driver probing to the driver model
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:52:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517125242.GG1480@linnie.riede.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC5B3B8.9020308@torque.net>; from dougg@torque.net on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 23:59:52 -0400

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-17 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-16 16:20 [PATCH] switch scsi upper driver probing to the driver model Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-16 23:57 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-17  2:25   ` Willem Riede
2003-05-17  7:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17  9:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17 16:35     ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-17  9:59   ` Kai Makisara
2003-05-17 15:08     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17 16:19       ` James Bottomley
2003-05-18  9:35     ` Kai Makisara
2003-05-17  3:59 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-17  7:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 19:02     ` Greg KH
2003-05-17  8:32   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-17 12:52   ` Willem Riede [this message]
2003-05-19 21:38 ` Patrick Mansfield

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