reopen 251114 ! retitle 251114 wish stinit was called by udev not modprobe severity 251114 wishlist thanks
Hello, I'm reopening this bug as I think it would make more sense to let udev call stinit rather than modprobe. With the scsiadd command (or by echoing magic into /proc/scsi/ ) one can force a rescan of the scsi bus. Consider a system with 2 tape drives. One tape drive is off when the system is booted. Later the second tape drive is turned on and the scsi bus rescanned. With the udev method of calling stinit this newly discovered tape drive will be initiallised. I this situation the st module is already loaded so will not be reloaded for the second drive therefore the modprobe method of calling stinit will fail to init the second drive. As a consequence of using the udev method the "/etc/init.d/mt-st start" method _MAY_ be obsolete. I'm not exactly sure how udev works for compiled in modules. If the st driver is compiled into the kernel then I think that udev will still call stinit. However I may be forgetting initrd/intramfs issues here. Anyway I'm reopening this as a wishlist so that this can be given some further consideration. I hope that is OK. Bye for now Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
