Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning
- To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:51:15 +0100
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:17:40AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> However, Ben does have a point that we shouldn't force those
> using SCSI (and wishing to use the new async scanning
> feature) to depend on and use sysfs too
yes, we do. an no, procfs is a much worse filesystem to depend
on for drivers. if people don't want sysfs they can either do
the synchronous scan or do their own scan in userspace.
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