Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

[Satyam Sharma]

On 5/18/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

By depend on I meant being forced to build and run it. /proc is
clearly more-or-less standard that almost everybody uses, otoh
users that do not run sysfs are more common.

> if people don't want sysfs they can either do the synchronous scan
> or do their own scan in userspace.

Hmmm, actually those other users could easily write and maintain
a 20-line patch that does the wait for async scans thing for them
using /proc/scsi/scsi in any case.
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