Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:16:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:16:38 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:29199 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:16:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 To: benh@kernel.crashing.org (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:20:59 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), mochel@osdl.org (Patrick Mochel), jlundell@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011025080342.1865@smtp.wanadoo.fr> from "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" at Oct 25, 2001 10:03:42 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In this case, "sg" could add itself when opened, and eventually cause > sleep requests to be rejected for example. I think SG is the only really special case one reading over the code. Disk and CD might want to issue a couple of things (cache flush, unlock media type stuff) but nothing tricky. > Well, in fact, I don't think there is real need for the "SCSI disk device" > node, but that depends pretty much on the new SCSI architecture. Sure - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/