From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932857AbXCUQNp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:13:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932875AbXCUQNo (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:13:44 -0400 Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.206]:26817 "HELO smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932857AbXCUQNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:13:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=WQ/mguynIycFgsJQKwkdrrihpSbx1En6hzoqdbUuX5g0p7givP0eMLQRRnaysYurRxiBhjQYMGcS5hGJPbsd0nVlmvaZNThfk3cLN53wE122Wm8nx5MN6DIH+2sZ0S10GoqrVjJKDGdx4gacXPV7C5EXCATsUTTXOZiNPECh340= ; X-YMail-OSG: datPkmcVM1m9.G1bXulv37U1.nsXQg1fLx1fa3KRg.hTY8bt.OWSGRZwZzPuLTVvYgQ8XcjIEQtPqz27agOoKwUYD4LAlFsZlWpGXAWQnRKMHbU7Lv8LHw-- From: David Brownell To: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc4-git] SCSI newstyle hotplug/coldplug support Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:13:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Linux Kernel list , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <200703201736.09280.david-b@pacbell.net> <46011075.6050608@tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <46011075.6050608@tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703211013.35183.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 21 March 2007 4:01 am, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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? Not very; I didn't know about previous work. Why hasn't such support been merged yet? - Dave