From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitri Vorobiev Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be deselected Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:32:39 +0200 Message-ID: <491D6FE7.3080404@movial.fi> References: <1226585472-12559-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <491C3813.1070305@movial.fi> <0cff1148a04c9f90c98e26eff6e0bfc968e4574c@8b5064a13e22126c1b9329f0dc35b8915774b7c3.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.movial.fi ([62.236.91.34]:58517 "EHLO smtp.movial.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751345AbYKNMck (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:32:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <0cff1148a04c9f90c98e26eff6e0bfc968e4574c@8b5064a13e22126c1b9329f0dc35b8915774b7c3.invalid> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Arlott Cc: Fabio Comolli , Bernhard Walle , james.bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Simon Arlott wrote: > On Thu, November 13, 2008 14:22, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: >> Fabio Comolli wrote: >>> So I'm not the only one :-) >>> Please see this thread: >>> >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/22/355 >> See also: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122538386519971&w=2 >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122539443509753&w=2 > > I suggest reading http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/13/75. > > Basically, if you want to get rid of it you need to provide > a viable alternative. Blocking read on a character device or a /proc file? A new system call (this is a bit overkill, of course, but strictly speaking it _is_ an alternative)? Dmitri >