From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 23:16:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (chopper.poohsticks.org [63.227.60.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5702937B721; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:16:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG) Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (drew@localhost.poohsticks.org [127.0.0.1]) by chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2L7GjO02859; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:16:45 -0700 Message-Id: <200103210716.f2L7GjO02859@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> To: Mike Smith Cc: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI-over-* hacks In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:01:57 PST." <200103210301.f2L31vO00905@mass.dis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2855.985159005.1@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:16:45 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103210301.f2L31vO00905@mass.dis.org>, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG writes: >> - the Linux SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*)? > >We already have a far superior mechanism (/dev/pass*) FWIW, The Linux /dev/sg was implemented as a simple way to send SCSI commands to media changer robots in an MO drive library for a medical imaging application, which found its way into the standard kernel becuase Linux is distributed under the GPL. -- Home Page For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message