From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Gulick Subject: Re: bug 2400 Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:53:20 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1080860000.5300.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040401131502.41136788.akpm@osdl.org> <1080856352.5300.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1080859235.2117.61.camel@mulgrave> Reply-To: gulickconsulting@direcway.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from a34-mta01.direcpc.com ([66.82.4.90]:54383 "EHLO a34-mta01.direcway.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263229AbUDAWxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:53:45 -0500 Received: from [40.0.0.57] (dpc6935101125.direcpc.com [69.35.101.125]) by a34-mta01.direcway.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HVI003BEKX3O8@a34-mta01.direcway.com> for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:53:44 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <1080859235.2117.61.camel@mulgrave> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, SCSI Mailing List On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:40, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:52, Matt Gulick wrote: > > Where you will get into trouble is that SCSI is not considered to be > a > > 'Dynamic' bus. Devices do not normally come and go, while USB and > 1394 > > devices are 'Hot Plugable'. > > It isn't? considering all the refcounting work that's gone into the > SCSI > stack to make it support hotplug transports, I don't think such a > blanket statement is supportable. > > James James, You may be right. I have not fully dissected the Linux SCSI stack. I am very intimately familiar with the Darwin SCSI stack as well as the Windose stacks (I had to fully architect USB 2.0 stack with support for SBP-2 under SE, ME and 2k, [I feel so dirty]). The Linux stack may be more forward looking. Matt ---------------------------------------- Matt Gulick Sr. Staff Engineer Adaptec, Inc. gulickconsulting@direcway.com matt_gulick@adaptec.com (715) 426-0884