Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map ) | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:09:13 -0400 | From | James Bottomley <> |
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andrew.grover@intel.com said: > If a device can be accessed by multiple machines concurrently, it > should not be in driverfs.
On that argument, we'll eliminate almost all Fibre Channel devices!
I think the qualification for appearing in driverfs is actually possessing a driver. Therefore, we accept FC and iSCSI. Things which appear as FileSystems are debatable, but not anything which has a real device driver.
> We need a device tree to do PM. If driverfs's PM capabilities are hurt > because it doesn't stay true to that, then the featureitis has gone > too far.
Perhaps it's more a question of whether power management belongs as an every unit item in driverfs. As you say, we get problems where the device is shared between multiple computers.
James
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