linux-kernel - Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

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Message-ID: <20070517185115.GA13207@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 19:51:15 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel-packagers@...r.kernel.org,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Subject: Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:17:40AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> However, Ben does have a point that we shouldn't force those
> using SCSI (and wishing to use the new async scanning
> feature) to depend on and use sysfs too

yes, we do.  an no, procfs is a much worse filesystem to depend
on for drivers.  if people don't want sysfs they can either do
the synchronous scan or do their own scan in userspace.

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