Re: Host drivers and conversion of SCSI to the driver model

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

Alan Stern [stern@rowland.harvard.edu] wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I think it's more of the matter that Mike is still changing the way the
> > SCSI core works with the class and driver model.  I suggest you take
> > this to the linux-scsi list to hash out the way scsi should and does
> > work in order to find the best solution for usb-storage, as I guess that
> > it also would be the best solution for all other SCSI host drivers.
> 
> Mike:
> 
> What does the future for this progression look like?  Will there be some
> standard place under /sys/class/scsi??? where a host driver like
> usb-storage can register its class device?

Did you need your own class device or can you use the shost_attrs
capability that James added?

> 
> And while I'm at it, let me remind you that the class_dev element of
> struct Scsi_Host needs to have a release() method.  Probably the easiest 
> way to make it work right is to do a "get_device(&shost->gendev)" when 
> shost->class_dev is registered and have the release routine do 
> "put_device(&shost->gendev)".
> 

Yes I will add a class release function and the order you
describe sounds the easiest to make it work.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
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