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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:32:39 +0200
From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>
Organization: Movial Creative Technologies
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To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
CC: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be deselected
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Simon Arlott wrote:
> On Thu, November 13, 2008 14:22, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
>> Fabio Comolli wrote:
>>> So I'm not the only one :-)
>>> Please see this thread:
>>>
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/22/355
>> See also:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122538386519971&w=2
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122539443509753&w=2
> 
> I suggest reading http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/13/75.
> 
> Basically, if you want to get rid of it you need to provide
> a viable alternative.

Blocking read on a character device or a /proc file? A new system call (this is a bit overkill, of course, but strictly speaking it _is_ an alternative)?

Dmitri

> 

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