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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:53:01 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_da.c src/sys/geom geom_disk.c geom_disk.h geom_subr.c 
Message-ID:  <8531.1132329181@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:10:29 MST." <437DEEE5.9040201@samsco.org> 

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In message <437DEEE5.9040201@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> 
>> Most drivers seem to detach their internal state from the struct
>> disk, and therefore they don't need this.
>> 
>
>So what makes CAM special in this regard?

I dunno.  Cam seems to have a different lifecycle for devices
but I have never dived deep enough to figure it out.

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