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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()
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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