On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:37:21PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:44:48AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > There are other, more general sorts of objections. For example, it's a > > > mistake to try putting device-specific information in a module parameter > > > (which, by its very nature, should apply to all devices managed by that > > > driver). > > > > That's why we have per-device sysfs attributes :) > > Yes indeed. They don't help much in this case, though, because the kernel > uses the information very shortly after the sysfs directory is created. > There isn't time for userspace to write to the attribute. Not unless > someone wants to go add a delay to the SCSI disk driver, a delay that will > serve no purpose in all but a handful of systems.
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