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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	USB Storage List <usb-storage@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Notify about errors during initialization
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:08:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040106180832.A19009@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040106180814.GA2119@beaverton.ibm.com>; from andmike@us.ibm.com on Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:08:14AM -0800

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:08:14AM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> > Because some drivers (like the ieee1394) don't want scanning to happen.
> > They can easily chose that by not sending a scan event.
> > 
> 
> Couldn't the user space also set the policy to scan or not scan? It
> would seem that user space would be more flexible and not need a new
> api (Just do not call scsi_scan_host).

For ieee1394 scanning doesn't make any sense, so I don't see why it should
scan at all.

And I don't understand that API argument at all.  With my suggestion
scsi_scan_host would be changed to send the hotplug even - not change in
API at all.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20031207051634.GB21951@one-eyed-alien.net>
2003-12-08 16:15 ` Notify about errors during initialization Alan Stern
2004-01-05  2:10   ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-05 22:04     ` Alan Stern
2004-01-05 22:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-05 23:32         ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-06 16:17           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-06 17:15             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-01-06 17:18               ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-06 18:08                 ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-06 18:08                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-06 19:04                     ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-06 18:07               ` Sysfs attribute file for max_sectors Alan Stern
2004-01-06 18:23                 ` James Bottomley
2004-01-06 19:31                   ` Alan Stern
2004-01-06 19:47                     ` James Bottomley
2004-01-07 16:16                       ` PATCH: (as168) " Alan Stern
2004-01-06 21:11                     ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-01-06 21:14                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-06 22:00                       ` Alan Stern

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