[6082] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI generic interface addition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Andree)
Fri Mar 12 18:03:41 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:55:46 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903102319590.5273-100000@andante.jic.com>; from Eric Youngdale on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:25:23AM -0500
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:25:23AM -0500, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> It doesn't have to be an all or nothing proposition. OK, you do
> the things in the kernel that can't be done in user space, and do the rest
> in user space. Just because you can't do the whole thing in user space
> doesn't mean the whole thing absolutely must be in the kernel.
The kernel needs a much more sophisticated naming scheme, and tearing
things apart in a kernel-space and a user-space part always raises
problems like "user-space part gets out of date". Like with modutils
and things. We should - this is off-topic here - mirror ALL the stuff
like ipchains, ipfwadm for 2.0, and other things along with all the
kernel FTP servers, to make sure it's just as up to date as the kernel
is. We're not getting anywhere otherwise, unless at least the kernel
Makefile itself checks it user-space is still current.
> I think the main problem is that the thread just isn't sexy. It
> is actually quite boring, most people don't care, and above all most
> people don't want to be inconvenienced by whatever solution is adopted.
This is a very important issue.
> A gross generalization would be that the level of interest that any given
> person has would be proportional to the number of devices they have on
> their machines :-). Anyways, the fact that most people are indifferent
> suggests to me that a lightweight solution is called for.
Be it lightweight or not, a module as an addition is always in favour.
:-) It should however be a real solution, not a hack.
--
Matthias Andree
"Users never read manuals."
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