From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc4-git] SCSI newstyle hotplug/coldplug support Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:01:09 +0300 Message-ID: <46011075.6050608@tls.msk.ru> References: <200703201736.09280.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:20187 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752169AbXCULBP (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:01:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200703201736.09280.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Linux Kernel list , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org David Brownell wrote: > This teaches scsi devices how to support "new style" hotplug/coldplug: > using a modalias sysfs attribute for coldplug, and MODALIAS environment > variable for hotplug. How this is different from http://marc.info/?t=115204542200002&r=1&w=2 and earlier attempts to do the same? /mjt