Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sym53c8xx: fix setflag user command to control disconnects

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:11:01PM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote:
> HBA is inside an embedded device sold by my company, and customers can
> attach their own SCSI devices to it.  There is one type of SCSI device
> that we support which doesn't work with disconnect privilege enabled, so
> my code running in the embedded device needs to be able to
> enable/disable disconnect privilege dynamically based on whether or not
> the customer has attached this specific broken device.
> 
> It would be nice to have a generic way to control it.  That would save
> me the bother of sending my patch to control disconnect privilege for
> LSI MPT Fusion Ultra320 HBAs via mptctl.  ;-)

Yes, the embedded space is a good enough reason to implement it in the
SPI transport class.  And I think we should take that as an opportunity
to kill the sym2 /proc support or at least the write support.
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