From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] RE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the drive r?
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:24:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102645481.3814.5.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570230CAA0@exa-atlanta>
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 20:21 -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> +i. Introduced driver ioctl that returns scsi address for a given ld.
> +
> + "Why can't the existing sysfs interfaces be used to do this?"
> + - Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com)
> +
> + "I've looked into solving this another way, but I cannot see how
> + to get this driver-private mapping of logical drive number-> HCTL
> + without putting code something like this into the driver."
OK now I look at the code, I have another suggestion. Why not simply
publish the logical drive number as an extra file in the device sysfs
directory? That way you can get your C:H:T:L, go to the end of the tree
and cat megaraid_sd (or whatever you want to call it).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-10 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-10 1:21 [PATCH 2/2] RE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the drive r? Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-10 2:24 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-12-10 4:15 ` Matt Domsch
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