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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: wrlk@riede.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [0/4]
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:09:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB9A01D.3000300@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507231953.GS524@linnie.riede.org>

Willem Riede wrote:
> On 2003.05.06 13:23 Mike Anderson wrote:
> 
>>Other classes to consider:
>>	(scsi_tape or tape), (scsi_disk or disk), (scsi_gen).
>>I believe Greg KH mentioned something to me about why we would select
>>scsi_tape over tape, but I have forgot the reason.
>>
> 
> Would that be, because ide_tape could have different attributes?
> 
> In any case, there are some unique properties of onstream tapes that I
> would love to make available, so should osst define its own class?

Willem,
You already have the driver area in /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/osst .
Both the st and sg drivers have "atrtributes" in there. The
sd driver could do with some as well (e.g. default timeout,
number of retries).

Doug Gilbert



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05  8:33 [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [0/4] Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  8:34 ` [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [1/4] Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  8:35   ` [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [2/4] Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  8:37     ` [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [3/4] Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  8:38       ` [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [4/4] Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  8:38 ` [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [0/4] Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-05  9:40   ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-05 10:00     ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-05  9:48   ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-05 10:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-06  1:05       ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-07 15:44         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-07 16:15           ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-07 16:41             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-05 11:46 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-05 21:45   ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-06  1:12     ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-06 16:28 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-06 17:23   ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-07 23:19     ` Willem Riede
2003-05-08  0:09       ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2003-05-08  1:44       ` Mike Anderson

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