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 12:42:39 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040529164239.GA8855@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <40B74725.90403@torque.net> <20040528172535.GD13961@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846125.2101.29.camel@mulgrave> <20040529155744.GA32621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1085846840.2103.47.camel@mulgrave> <20040529162912.GA5922@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040529163641.GG31365@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:4821 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264335AbUE2Qmr (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 12:42:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040529163641.GG31365@devserv.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Alan Cox , James Bottomley , Douglas Gilbert , SCSI Mailing List On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > never include source code. The whole point of sg is arbitary management of > > devices. > > *AND SG_IO IS THAT*. You seem to ignore that consistently. Unfortunately my devices randomly change name according to what is loaded > those commands, with the same ioctl. THAT changed. Don't tell me that very > long list of third party apps ALL doesn't take a device as argument.... > undoubtedly several don't but... "long list"... I had to recompile my kernel to flash my scsi drive firmware. It works in the generic kernel but not in 2.6.5-Fedora. That alone says its not an acceptable change for a "stable" kernel tree - which hopefully 2.6.x will become in the next six months. (If you want to argue about 2.7.x then its somewhat different - if scsi devices appear in sysfs and the sysfs nodes also support SG_IO then the entire notion of /dev/sg could go away in 2.7)