From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig 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 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040406062015.C14800@infradead.org> References: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F64F24F@otce2k03.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:19461 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263627AbUDFFUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:20:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F64F24F@otce2k03.adaptec.com>; from mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:23:49PM -0400 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Salyzyn, Mark" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:23:49PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > You mean Linux land, all other operating systems, other UNIXii includ= ed, > offer the ability to determine if a device is in-use in a timely mann= er. > 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 jus= t because he's an OEM. And we already had the stupid user discussion a f= ew times, look up the long EVMS and Aun=FE Tilly threads. > In user land, lsmod tells us how many users of a module exist, what i= s > so secret about a scsi disk devices that we are afraid of telling the= m > if any of the access points are being used? =46or many module types lsmod can't anymore. Look at the use count of your network driver module. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html