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    SubjectRE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
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    That settles it. Thank you all for your replies.

    Sreenivas
    LSI Logic

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Matt Domsch [mailto:Matt_Domsch@dell.com]
    >Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:14 PM
    >To: Bagalkote, Sreenivas
    >Cc: 'brking@us.ibm.com'; 'James Bottomley';
    >'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; 'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org';
    >'bunk@fs.tum.de'; 'Andrew Morton'; Ju, Seokmann; Doelfel,
    >Hardy; Mukker, Atul
    >Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
    >
    >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?
    >
    >--
    >Matt Domsch
    >Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
    >Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux
    >on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
    >
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