--- adam radford wrote:
> I have one problem with this patch:
> 
> You are calling "class_device_create()" from 0 to "TW_MAX_UNITS"
> which is 16...
> shouldn't you be calling this only once per each controller instance
> that is discovered
> via twa_probe() ?

Well, I was just trying to emulate what the userspace tools do,
which is create all 16 devices whether or not they're physically
present. I actually tried with only twe0 (I have only one card in my
test system) and smartd seems to try to find twe1-15 anyway. I'm
not sure what it's doing, but I assume it's talking to the driver.

> Also, no other scsi LLDD drivers are calling "class_device_create()",
> so I wonder if
> this is acceptable to scsi maintainers?

I wondered the same thing. I think perhaps the only issue is with
SELinux mentioned below which is rare and so it's a low priority 
to use sysfs. There may be other reasons I'm not aware of, though.

> Right now we have our userspace tools creating the /dev/tweX devices.

Yes, unfortunately that leaves the /dev/tweX devices with the 
wrong SELinux security context and [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested this
approach:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232218
I'd be happy to hear alternative solutions, but it sounds like
they do not want to use a custom udev rule.


       
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