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

[Bagalkote, Sreenivas]

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That settles it. Thank you all for your replies.

Sreenivas
LSI Logic 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:14 PM
>To: Bagalkote, Sreenivas
>Cc: 'brking@xxxxxxxxxx'; 'James Bottomley'; 
>'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; 'linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; 
>'bunk@xxxxxxxxx'; 'Andrew Morton'; Ju, Seokmann; Doelfel, 
>Hardy; Mukker, Atul
>Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
>
>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 Linux 
>on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
>
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