Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host_no management

[Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>]

On 12/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ewan Milne wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 13:48 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote:
>> On 11/17/2015 03:20 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Lee> Martin: I will be glad to update the patch, creating a modprobe
>>> Lee> parameter as suggested, if you find this acceptable.
>>>
>>> For development use a module parameter would be fine. But I am concerned
>>> about our support folks that rely on the incrementing host number when
>>> analyzing customer log files.
>>>
>>> Ewan: How do you folks feel about this change?
>>>
>>
>> Ewan?
> 
> 
> Personally, I think having host numbers that increase essentially
> without limit (I think I've seen this with iSCSI sessions) are a
> problem, the numbers start to lose meaning for people when they
> are not easily recognizable.  Yes, it can help when you're analyzing
> a log file, but it seems to me that you would want to track the
> host state throughout anyway, so you could just follow the number
> as it changes.
> 
> If we change the behavior, we have to change documentation, and
> our support people will get calls.  But that's not a reason not
> to do it.
> 
> -Ewan
> 

Ewan:

Thank you for your reply. I agree with you, which is why I generated
this patch.

If we *do* make this change, do you think it would be useful to have a
module option to revert to the old numbering behavior? I actually think
it would be more confusing to support two behaviors than it would be to
bite the bullet (so to speak) and make the change.

-- 
Lee Duncan