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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After all that SG_IO and cdrecord talk, I decided to brush off the bsg
> driver I wrote some time ago. Basically this is a full (aims to be at
> least, probably still some minor bits missing) SG v3 interface. It
> supports both SG_IO (which we just pass through for now), as well as
> read/write and readv/writev of sg_io_hdr structures.
> 
> What's new in this area is that the bsg character device is closely tied
> to the block device. This relationsship is depicted in sysfs. bsg
> devices will show up in /sys/class/bsg/<devname>, and there is a link
> from /sys/block/<devname>/queue/bsg to that directory. With some
> udev/hotplug magic, it should create device nodes for you automatically.
> 
> TODO:
> 
> - Fold block/scsi_ioctl.c and block/bsg.c into one
> - Further improve the sysfs relations between a device and bsg
> - Test and so on
> 
> Probably some bugs still pending, it works for me though.

For my part, this gets a strong ACK.  I've been waiting for something 
like this since an OLS discussion years ago.

Thanks Jens!

	Jeff



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