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Re: kerneld (opps... try again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Sat May 3 19:27:11 1997
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 19:25:32 -0400
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au
CC: richard@stommel.tamu.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <97May2.223332-0400_edt.971285-248+286@vger.rutgers.edu>
(campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au)
>My question is there a clean was of:
> 1) sd signal kerneld "try loading scsi hosts"
> 2) sd sleeps
> 3) kerneld wakes up sd when "I'm through loading scsi driver modules"
> 4) sd looks at the minor again and then continues....
Again, not *really*.
>Obvious problems:
> 1) Is there any mechanism (from kernel space) for knowing if kerneld is active?
> 2) Can kerneld signal the kernel (it must somehow, howelse does it
> work currently??)
Someone else has to answer this stuff.
> 3) Is loading low level drivers OK in the middle of a call to
> sd_open() ?
> My answer here would be yes since sd hasn't done anything yet to
> the structures. Would someone more knowledge please confirm.
Yes, it should be fine.
-Eric
