From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Host drivers and conversion of SCSI to the driver model Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:04:34 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030627190434.A10771@infradead.org> References: <20030627110259.A3751@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:47117 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264606AbTF0RuX (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:50:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from stern@rowland.harvard.edu on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:56:59PM -0400 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Mike Anderson , James Bottomley , SCSI development list On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:56:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > I don't see how you can make that work without modifying parts of the > driver model core. After all, calls to a class_device attribute's show() > and store() methods don't go through the device driver or the bus driver; > they are demultiplexed within drivers/base/class.c. Right, the intention is to change the device model cope. See the dicussion about netdev refcounting on linux-netdev a while ago.