From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2/2 Use bus dev_attrs to create scsi_device attributes Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:08:53 -0800 Message-ID: <20050317170853.GA3006@kroah.com> References: <20050302194432.GA9743@us.ibm.com> <20050302194553.GA9776@us.ibm.com> <20050302194647.GB9776@us.ibm.com> <20050316224551.GA21918@us.ibm.com> <1111071201.5994.4.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:47571 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261971AbVCQRJI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:09:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1111071201.5994.4.camel@mulgrave> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Patrick Mansfield , SCSI Mailing List , Kay Sievers 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