Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:14:02 -0600 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? |
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:11:01AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > Doing it within the driver means you've got to release a new driver > for each affected OS, to avoid having to update the userspace app on > each OS. I claim it's much easier to update a userspace lib/app than > it is to update a driver on each installed system.
And, you're going to have to update the userspace lib/app to add the new ioctl()-invocation to it anyhow. So take the hit *only* there and make it use either /sys or /proc, whichever is available, no kernel changes. Yes?
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