Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <> | Subject | RE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:18:22 -0500 |
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That settles it. Thank you all for your replies.
Sreenivas LSI Logic
>-----Original Message----- >From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@dell.com] >Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:14 PM >To: Bagalkote, Sreenivas >Cc: 'brking@us.ibm.com'; 'James Bottomley'; >'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; 'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'; >'bunk@fs.tum.de'; 'Andrew Morton'; Ju, Seokmann; Doelfel, >Hardy; Mukker, Atul >Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? > >On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:11:01AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> Doing it within the driver means you've got to release a new driver >> for each affected OS, to avoid having to update the userspace app on >> each OS. I claim it's much easier to update a userspace >lib/app than >> it is to update a driver on each installed system. > >And, you're going to have to update the userspace lib/app to >add the new ioctl()-invocation to it anyhow. So take the hit >*only* there and make it use either /sys or /proc, whichever >is available, no kernel changes. Yes? > >-- >Matt Domsch >Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer >Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux >on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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