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From: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Willem Riede <osst@riede.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:41:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050218194135.GD4424@katya> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050218183350.GA21954@us.ibm.com>

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:33:50AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> The block SG_IO handles the ioctls, but not devices without a SCSI upper
> level driver (i.e. not tape, disk or cdrom).

Then it might make sense to explicitly list in sg.c the TYPE_* not
matched by s[dtr].

> In my experience, there are always applications that want to use the
> standard device driver (/dev/sda etc.) and others that want to use a
> generic driver.

So these drivers can compete for the same device?  Are there
deterministic rules on which one is supposed to win?  And is there a
userspace interface to unbind one driver and bind another?  Otherwise it
may mean that automatic module loading is inappropriate here at all...

Roman.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-18 19:41 UTC|newest]

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2005-02-18 17:17                   ` [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Patrick Mansfield
2005-02-18 18:11                     ` Roman Kagan
2005-02-18 18:33                       ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-02-18 19:41                         ` Roman Kagan [this message]
2005-02-18 20:17                           ` Patrick Mansfield

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