Re: Bug#312699: Please have hotplug rescan the scsi bus for scsi loads.
reassign 312699 hotplug
thanks
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:00:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:14:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > reassign 312699 kernel
> > thanks
> >
> > On Jun 09, "Michael Heldebrant Ph.D" <michaelheldebrant@stonepath.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For a Dell Latitude X200 laptop and docking station is is necessary to
> > > manually run scsiadd -s to enable the cdrom drive through the firewire
> > > interface. Is there a way to intelligently rescan the scsi bus when
> > > potential scsi devices may enter and leave the system or should I look
> > > into reporting a bug against the sbp2 kernel module?
> > I'd start with the kernel. If the kernel people say that this cannot be
> > fixed in the driver then you could write a script for
> > /etc/hotplug.d/ieee1394/ .
> > If you can make it run scsiadd only on this specific system then I could
> > add it to the hotplug package.
>
> This works just fine when you use a 2.6 kernel. With the 2.4 kernel
> even the manual scan is extremly dangerous.
I notice from the initial bug report that the kernel in question here is
2.4.27, which I guess means a hotplug script is in order. Marco, do you
have any advice on how this should be done?
--
Horms
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