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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Notify about errors during initialization
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:18:43 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <20040106091538.A10957@beaverton.ibm.com>; from patmans@us.ibm.com on Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:15:39AM -0800
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To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>, Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>, USB Storage List <usb-storage@one-eyed-alien.net>, SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:15:39AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> Why not trigger off the scsi_host hotplug event? Though we will have races
> similiar to udev where the sysfs attribute files are created after the
> hotplug event - we really ought to have a device_init/setup, create the
> sysfs files, then device_add/enable.

Because some drivers (like the ieee1394) don't want scanning to happen.
They can easily chose that by not sending a scan event.