Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:00:37 -0800 | From | "'Patrick Mansfield'" <> | Subject | Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? |
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote:
> > How does the driver supply the mapping if it does not know > > about the "change"? Is it reserving or telling user space the > > hctl that will be used? > This point was thoroughly explained in my previous post item 2. Yes, driver > reserves a virtual bus on which all logical drives would be exported.
OK ...
> > If so, why can't the driver call scsi_add_device(h,c,t,l) > > after the ioctl to create the logical drive completes? > This idea was already turned down, see mails on linux-scsi on 12/3
Well you can call scsi_add_device() from the driver, the objections I saw were to add an ioctl that would just call scsi_add_device().
But it doesn't matter if adding driver post-ioctl specific actions is not an option.
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