From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lee Xing <lxing@Crossroads.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help - can Linux SCSI sub-system add newly-attached devices to /dev on the fly?
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:00:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040520180022.A10101@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519672568F040C41B6FAC21ADF51B18FEFFD@mailnode1.commstor.crossroads.com>; from lxing@Crossroads.com on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:58:21AM -0500
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:58:21AM -0500, Lee Xing wrote:
> Mid-layer in lk 2.6 defines two functions, scsi_add_device() and scsi_add_host(),
> that can be called by low-level drivers based on the document. I'm not familiar
> with lk2.6. Can low-level drivers in lk2.6 call scsi_add_device( ) to add
> newly-attached disks to mid-layer on the fly?
Yes. For an example take a look at drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c.
> Does lk2.4 provide a similar
> function to scsi_add_device( ) in lk2.6?
No.
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2004-05-20 16:58 Help - can Linux SCSI sub-system add newly-attached devices to /dev on the fly? Lee Xing
2004-05-20 17:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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