On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:33:50AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> The block SG_IO handles the ioctls, but not devices without a SCSI upper
> level driver (i.e. not tape, disk or cdrom).

Then it might make sense to explicitly list in sg.c the TYPE_* not
matched by s[dtr].

> In my experience, there are always applications that want to use the
> standard device driver (/dev/sda etc.) and others that want to use a
> generic driver.

So these drivers can compete for the same device?  Are there
deterministic rules on which one is supposed to win?  And is there a
userspace interface to unbind one driver and bind another?  Otherwise it
may mean that automatic module loading is inappropriate here at all...

Roman.
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