[HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()
As there was no objections, I am going to commit changes to cam_get_device() that remove the following features: - ignoring 'r' and 'n' at the start of device name - ignoring whitespace at end of device name - parsing and ignoring slice and partition names in a device name cam(3) manual page is going to be updated to reflect the changes. This would simplify the code and disambiguate its behavior. Non-rewound and character disk/SCSI devices has not been supported for quite a while now. Support for parsing partition/slice names is incomplete (e.g. GPT scheme is not supported) and of questionable usefulness. Full diff is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/cam.diff If you know of any functionality or application that would be broken by this change please stop me ASAP. Also, if you have any other reason to object to the change please speak up before the change is committed. Thank you. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()
On Friday 08 October 2010 10:07:20 Andriy Gapon wrote: Non-rewound and character disk/SCSI devices has not been supported for quite a while now. Support for parsing partition/slice names is incomplete (e.g. GPT scheme is not supported) and of questionable usefulness. If we no longer create non-rewound and character device nodes then sa(4), mtio(4) and scd(4) should probably be updated at some point too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()
Hi, On 8 Oct 2010, at 10:07, Andriy Gapon wrote: As there was no objections, I am going to commit changes to cam_get_device() that remove the following features: - ignoring 'r' and 'n' at the start of device name - ignoring whitespace at end of device name - parsing and ignoring slice and partition names in a device name cam(3) manual page is going to be updated to reflect the changes. This would simplify the code and disambiguate its behavior. Non-rewound and character disk/SCSI devices has not been supported for quite a while now. [etc] Just a clarification, does this mean no /dev/nsa.. ? That would be a showstopper for many tape users. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Bob Bishop wrote: On 8 Oct 2010, at 10:07, Andriy Gapon wrote: As there was no objections, I am going to commit changes to cam_get_device() that remove the following features: - ignoring 'r' and 'n' at the start of device name - ignoring whitespace at end of device name - parsing and ignoring slice and partition names in a device name cam(3) manual page is going to be updated to reflect the changes. This would simplify the code and disambiguate its behavior. Non-rewound and character disk/SCSI devices has not been supported for quite a while now. [etc] Just a clarification, does this mean no /dev/nsa.. ? That would be a showstopper for many tape users. Yes, the no-rewind tape device is a practical requirement. I think it's ok for 'r' to go away for disk devices, but 'n' for tape devices needs to be retained. If we really want to remove the 'n', then all tape devices need to be no-rewind on close, and the rewind-on-close devices need to be deprecated just like the block devices for disks were. Of course doing this would change traditional behavior and might violate POLA. -- Greg Rivers ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
