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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:22:03 +0000
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To: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> I agree. The sysfs method would have been the most logical way of doing it.
> But then application becomes sysfs dependent. We really cannot do that.

And we cannot add more ioctl interfaces.