Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

> Why do you need extra tags. Why can't you use
> the ioctl entry point?

Because these methods should not be accessible to user-space programs.

> The explanation as to purpose isn't quite clear to me. Is prescan
> an 'activation'?

It's so that I can (a) tell my adapter to rescan the bus and (b) my driver
to rebuild its target/LUN -> device ID map, based upon the results of (a).