From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [RFC] scsi host sysfs support again [0/4] Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:09:01 +1000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EB9A01D.3000300@torque.net> References: <20030505083315.GB8416@beaverton.ibm.com> <1052238508.1819.42.camel@mulgrave> <20030506172312.GA1697@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030507231953.GS524@linnie.riede.org> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au ([130.102.2.1]:52232 "EHLO bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264407AbTEGXxo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 19:53:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030507231953.GS524@linnie.riede.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: wrlk@riede.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.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