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

-- 
Bruce Cran