From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use sdev_scsi2lun for SCSI parallel drivers
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:12:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B6B646.5080301@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140704134437.GA12345@infradead.org>
On 07/04/2014 03:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:54:34PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> SCSI-2 defines only up to 256 LUNs with a flat namespace.
>> This patch introduces an accessor 'sdev_scsi2lun' which should be
>> used for these drivers to avoid problems when using 64-bit LUNs
>> internally.
>
> So what would be set in the upper 48 bits for those drivers? We receive
> the LUN over the wire to start with.
>
None. All these devices are physically incapable of receiving or
sending LUNs more that a byte wide.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-04 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-04 11:54 [PATCH 0/2] Fixed for 64bit LUNs Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 11:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] Use sdev_scsi2lun for SCSI parallel drivers Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 14:12 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2014-07-05 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-07 7:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-07 7:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-07 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-07 10:05 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-07 10:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-07 14:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 19:44 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-07-04 20:14 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-07-07 5:47 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 11:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] ib_srp: 64bit LUN fixes Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 12:31 ` Bart Van Assche
2014-07-04 13:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 14:12 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 14:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2014-07-04 14:41 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-04 16:53 ` Bart Van Assche
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