On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:24:18 -0500, "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is after my minimal sas transport class, please also >> read the thread about it on linux-scsi >> >In the referenced code for using sysfs, there only appear to be methods >for reading attributes. How about if we want to cause a command to >get written out to the hardware? Do we do something like this? > > /* get a semaphore keep everyone else out while we're working, > and hope like hell that all the other processes are playing > nice and using the semaphore too, or else we're hosed. */ > [...] > release_some_kind_of_semaphore(); > >I'm not suggesting that the above is a good idea. I don't have a good >idea about how to do this. Take a look at hwmon drivers, it is nowhere near so bad as you think. Grant. - : 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
