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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.6.0 EDD enhancements
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:08:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031228200854.B22668@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031219130129.B6530@lists.us.dell.com>; from Matt_Domsch@dell.com on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:01:29PM -0600

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:01:29PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> ChangeSet@1.1532.1.2, 2003-12-18 16:35:16-06:00, Matt_Domsch@dell.com
>   EDD: enable symlinks to SCSI devices
>   
>   Symlinks from /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev8x/disc to the appropriate
>   SCSI discs were added a year ago, but disabled because the
>   scsi_bus list contained non-'scsi_device's at that time, which
>   could have lead to an improper pointer following.    The SCSI
>   mid-layer has rectified this, so this code can be re-enabled
>   in edd.c once again.

As James already said you're poking far too deep into scsi internals.
In addition to his comment I'd suggest putting the symlink creating
into scsi_sysfs.c and exporting a procedural interface for the edd
code.  That way it'll get updated automatically if we change something.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-28 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-19 18:57 [RFC] 2.6.0 EDD enhancements Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 19:01 ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 19:01 ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 20:23   ` James Bottomley
2003-12-19 20:37     ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 21:03       ` James Bottomley
2003-12-28 20:08   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-12-29 20:05     ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 19:01 ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 19:03 ` Randy.Dunlap

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