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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow a transport to pre-initialize starget_data
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:25:00 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:18:10AM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 08/15/05 09:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Add a new void *transport_data argument to scsi_scan_target so that a
> > transport-class can fill in known information before actually scanning
> > the target.  This is needed by the upcoming SAS transport class patch.
> 
> Hmm, yes, this has been due for 5 years now.
> 
> While you're at it, rip out the extremely broken "channel" and "id",
> and leave only the opaque token.

Well, it's not a token but pre-initialized data.  The problem with
ripping out channel and id is that userland would break all over,
else we'd have done it already.