On 08/15/05 21:08, James Bottomley wrote: >>Think if SCSI used this same style of representation. For example, >>if there was no scsi target device entity, but class entities did >>exist and they just pointed back to the scsi host device entry. > > > Yes, it's theoretically possible to have had SCSI do this. We didn't do > it at the time because class_devices didn't exist when the SCSI tree was > first put together. It would, however, have rather put the mockers on > doing transport classes since class devices can't point at other class > devices. Well, so be it. All in all, I'd like to point out that James S has a very good and valid point, as anyone trained in SCSI protocols can see. >>My vote is to make the multiplexor instantiate each serial line >>as a separate device. > > That's a choice that's up to the maintainer of the serial driver ... I think James S, was making a point of concept. Maybe SCSI Core can learn from this? Luben - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
