From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752210AbXCULBQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:01:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752184AbXCULBQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:01:16 -0400 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 Message-ID: <46011075.6050608@tls.msk.ru> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:01:09 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060813) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Brownell CC: Linux Kernel list , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc4-git] SCSI newstyle hotplug/coldplug support References: <200703201736.09280.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200703201736.09280.david-b@pacbell.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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