Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:17:40AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> However, Ben does have a point that we shouldn't force those
> using SCSI (and wishing to use the new async scanning
> feature) to depend on and use sysfs too

yes, we do.  an no, procfs is a much worse filesystem to depend
on for drivers.  if people don't want sysfs they can either do
the synchronous scan or do their own scan in userspace.

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