Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

[Satyam Sharma]

On 5/16/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >> > >semantics of it (read-only?  read-write?  write-only?
> >
> > Well, it _has_ to be write, don't really care if it's read-write or
> > write-only. I would still prefer read-write, but we can go ahead with
> > write-only too. It doesn't really matter, does it?
>
> just to be devils advocate...
> it should be a read that returns when done,

Heh, yeah. We just need to trigger that scsi_complete_async_scans()
after all ... might as well abuse all intuition on the user's behalf :-)

> and that can be polled

Gaah! :-)

But seriously, though, this sysfs attribute can be implemented
_any which way_. Better for us if we do it the simplest way (and which
taxes the user's intuition the least). Just that Matthew asked so many
questions so I thought I might as well answer them :-)
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