From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dpt_i2o changes for 2.6.2 kernel in support of 64 bit and bitrot (part 1)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 06:20:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040406062015.C14800@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F64F24F@otce2k03.adaptec.com>; from mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:23:49PM -0400
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:23:49PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> You mean Linux land, all other operating systems, other UNIXii included,
> offer the ability to determine if a device is in-use in a timely manner.
> Does this mean Windoze has a feature that Linux does not have?
Depends on what you call a feature. It also doesn't allow to remove in-use
files..
> This would be unacceptable to our OEMs and users of our applications.
Could you please stop this OEM crap? No one cares more for someone just
because he's an OEM. And we already had the stupid user discussion a few
times, look up the long EVMS and Aunþ Tilly threads.
> In user land, lsmod tells us how many users of a module exist, what is
> so secret about a scsi disk devices that we are afraid of telling them
> if any of the access points are being used?
For many module types lsmod can't anymore. Look at the use count of
your network driver module.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-05 22:23 [PATCH] dpt_i2o changes for 2.6.2 kernel in support of 64 bit and bitrot (part 1) Salyzyn, Mark
2004-04-06 5:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-04-06 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
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2004-04-06 14:47 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-04-06 14:03 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-04-06 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-05 17:56 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-04-05 20:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-10 21:47 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-02-10 20:53 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-02-10 21:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
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