Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:41:34 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 09:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I'm strongly against adding this. The reason for that is that once an > ioctl is added, it realistically will and can never go away. > LSI is free to have their own fork and give that to dell; but they > should and could have known that it wasn't going to fly. (same I guess > for adaptec ioctls). The companies who then commit to some schedule > realize they take a huge risk, but that is no reason to foul up the > kernel more.
I agree. I'd like to see an agreed standard interface for dropping and managing physical volumes and drives, as well as a standard interface for dropping/managing logical volumes.
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