On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:05:42 +0100 Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you open e.g. /dev/cam or /dev/scg?, you open device that is not related > to a high level service like /dev/hd* and this unfortunately is unable to talk > to other devices in the same entity (e.g. ATAPI tapes). > > With /dev/cam or similar you get a single handle for a group of devices that > than are addressed via something very similar to dev=b,t,l > So what? Why is it so important to have just a single handle in this case as opposed to multiple handles? Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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