RE: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map )

From: Grover, Andrew (andrew.grover@intel.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 13:37:04 EST

> From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@steeleye.com]
> andrew.grover@intel.com said:
> > If a device can be accessed by multiple machines concurrently, it
> > should not be in driverfs.
>
> On that argument, we'll eliminate almost all Fibre Channel devices!
>
> I think the qualification for appearing in driverfs is
> actually possessing a
> driver. Therefore, we accept FC and iSCSI. Things which appear as
> FileSystems are debatable, but not anything which has a real
> device driver.

OK that makes sense.

Regards -- Andy
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