From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
jeff@garzik.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] clean gendisk out of scsi ULD structs
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:09:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468D6C17.8030006@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070705140636.6dbabd6f.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> Since gendisk will now become part of struct scsi_device, we don't need
> to store this value in any private data structs where they already store
> scsi_device. This series cleans up a few drivers which did this.
Since a scsi_device object is usually a SCSI logical unit,
one wonders why it would contain a gendisk object. Logical
units aren't necessarily disks, they might be enclosures or
just place holders that respond to an INQUIRY (e.g. lun=0
when the enclosing target has other active lus whose lun!=0).
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-05 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 21:06 [patch 0/3] clean gendisk out of scsi ULD structs Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-07-05 22:09 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2007-07-05 23:03 ` Al Viro
2007-07-05 23:02 ` Al Viro
2007-07-05 23:14 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-06 20:02 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-07 3:25 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-07-07 15:15 ` James Bottomley
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