Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:11:01AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Doing it within the driver means you've got to release a new driver
> for each affected OS, to avoid having to update the userspace app on
> each OS.  I claim it's much easier to update a userspace lib/app than
> it is to update a driver on each installed system.

And, you're going to have to update the userspace lib/app to add the
new ioctl()-invocation to it anyhow.  So take the hit *only* there and
make it use either /sys or /proc, whichever is available, no kernel
changes.  Yes?

-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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