Re: [PATCH,RFC] make ide-scsi more selective

Alan Cox
2001-08-22T21:14:53Z

> I've been rather annoyed by a dual problem in the ide-scsi setup:
> during initialisation, ide-scsi will claim ALL currently unassigned
> IDE devices. This is a problem in modular setups, since there's
> no guarantee that currently unassigned devices actually are intended
> for ide-scsi.

The real problem is that the drivers are claiming resources on load not
on open. Why shouldnt I be able to load ide-cd and ide-scsi and open either
/dev/hda or /dev/sr0 but not both together ?

Alan