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Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] make ide-scsi more selective
To: mikpe@csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:17:37 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I've been rather annoyed by a dual problem in the ide-scsi setup:
> during initialisation, ide-scsi will claim ALL currently unassigned
> IDE devices. This is a problem in modular setups, since there's
> no guarantee that currently unassigned devices actually are intended
> for ide-scsi.

The real problem is that the drivers are claiming resources on load not
on open. Why shouldnt I be able to load ide-cd and ide-scsi and open either
/dev/hda or /dev/sr0 but not both together ?

Alan