From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: sg driver and Fedora Core 2 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 11:57:44 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040529155744.GA32621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <40B74725.90403@torque.net> <20040528172535.GD13961@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846125.2101.29.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53700 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263807AbUE2P5w (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 11:57:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085846125.2101.29.camel@mulgrave> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Alan Cox , Douglas Gilbert , SCSI Mailing List , Arjan van de Ven On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:55:24AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > This is an error. Linus has also vetoed this change. Consider the > > Fedora kernel wrong on this point. It isnt however your SG_IO issue I think > > I don't necessarily regard this as an error: single attachment of ULDs > would be very helpful. However, since the mechanics of implementing Its most definitely problematic - it breaks a ton of existing tools, and it also doesn't do what you think. Try this for size insmod scsidriver open /dev/sg0 (a hard disk) insmod sd Apps should migrate to the new facilities when possible but its definitely not a good idea to make this change