Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:59:58 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, gcr+freebsd-current@tharned.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device() Message-ID: <4CAF31EE.6060409@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201010081221.24584.bruce@cran.org.uk> References: <4BCDEBF6.3030609@icyb.net.ua> <4CA30B24.8040707@freebsd.org> <4CAEDF48.1030602@freebsd.org> <201010081221.24584.bruce@cran.org.uk>
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on 08/10/2010 14:21 Bruce Cran said the following: > 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. > It seems that I've screwed up here. We do still support non-rewind devices. And it's probably not a good idea to remove support for e.g. "nsa" => "pass" mapping. -- Andriy Gapon
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