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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
To: "'James Bottomley'" <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
       "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: driverfs is not for everything! (was: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map 
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:37:04 -0700
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> From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@steeleye.com] 
> andrew.grover@intel.com said:
> > If a device can be accessed by multiple machines concurrently, it
> > should not be in driverfs. 
> 
> On that argument, we'll eliminate almost all Fibre Channel devices!
> 
> I think the qualification for appearing in driverfs is 
> actually possessing a 
> driver.  Therefore, we accept FC and iSCSI.  Things which appear as 
> FileSystems are debatable, but not anything which has a real 
> device driver.

OK that makes sense.

Regards -- Andy
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