From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: channel busy Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:51:19 -0500 Message-ID: <437B5577.1070901@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:53684 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030375AbVKPPv3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:51:29 -0500 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EcPZC-0004Nd-Oy for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:51:25 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: SCSI Mailing List It would be nice if the SCSI core supported the concept of "channel busy". SCSI understands host-busy and device-busy. Right now libata allocates one scsi host per ATA port largely due to SCSI implementation details, and I would like to get away from that. Jeff