Re: [PATCH] 2/2 Use bus dev_attrs to create scsi_device attributes

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:53:21AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:45 -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > Any comments on this? Should I resend these patches?
> 
> Well, the basic comment is that there are a lot of features that SCSI
> has that the driver core lacks:
> 
> 1) Attribute overrides.  This is actually part of the published API for
> SCSI
> 2) Ability to add extra attributes---several drivers use this
> 3) Ability to change attribute permissions based on capabilities.
> 
> I really rather like all of these features.
> 
> Initially when we did all this work for SCSI, there wasn't much
> enthusiasm for incorporating these features into drivers/base.  You
> could look and see what it would take to do this, and propose it to
> Greg ... If he's happy, I'd have no problem moving over because now we
> won't lose any functionality.

I would be very interested in seeing the above stuff move into the
driver core.

thanks,

greg k-h