On 5/18/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:17:40AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > However, Ben does have a point that we shouldn't force those > using SCSI (and wishing to use the new async scanning > feature) to depend on and use sysfs too yes, we do. an no, procfs is a much worse filesystem to depend on for drivers.
By depend on I meant being forced to build and run it. /proc is clearly more-or-less standard that almost everybody uses, otoh users that do not run sysfs are more common.
if people don't want sysfs they can either do the synchronous scan or do their own scan in userspace.
Hmmm, actually those other users could easily write and maintain a 20-line patch that does the wait for async scans thing for them using /proc/scsi/scsi in any case. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
