Re: [PATCH] ide_scsi: allow it to be used for non CD only

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 11/29/06, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:05:56 +0100
> "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nowadays, you can dynamically change driver bound to a device using
> > sysfs and it works just fine for IDE, ie:
>
> This isn't the point of this change. The point is to do this at discovery
> time. If you do it later then many horrible things happen as the device

then "hdc=ide-cdrom" at a boot time should keep ide-scsi from
binding to hdc for all cases (builtin/modular ide-cd/ide-scsi)

> names and renames itself while udev goes boom.

Uh?  I hope that udev people are informed
about these horrible things...

/dev/hdc stays there all the time
/dev/sr? addition/removal should be handled
by udev otherwise it looks like a udev bug

> Its a small clean patch and it'll solve the problem nicely until
> drivers/ide dies.

No strong feelings here about the patch.  It is indeed a clean hack. ;)
I just wanted to point out that there are already more flexible ways
to achieve the same thing.

Bart
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