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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:37:57 -0700
From: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET RFC] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event
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Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Ideally I would like to see a way from the user space
> to uncouple a unit from the sd (or sr) driver, in a
> similar way to how an LLD can use
> scsi_device::no_uld_attach . That would restrict user
> space access to the bsg or sg driver. 

I am not sure if this is exactly what you want but you can unbind a
device from the sd driver today.

E.x.

# cd /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sd
# ls
0:0:0:0  4:0:0:0  4:0:1:0  5:0:0:0  5:0:1:0  bind  unbind
# sg_map
/dev/sg0  /dev/sda
/dev/sg1  /dev/sdb
/dev/sg2  /dev/sdc
/dev/sg3  /dev/sdd
/dev/sg4  /dev/sde
# echo "5:0:1:0" > unbind
# ls
0:0:0:0  4:0:0:0  4:0:1:0  5:0:0:0  bind  unbind
# sg_map
/dev/sg0  /dev/sda
/dev/sg1  /dev/sdb
/dev/sg2  /dev/sdc
/dev/sg3  /dev/sdd
/dev/sg4

-andmike
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