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From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@xsintricity.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning, version 9
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:04:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626210403.GA31085@one-eyed-alien.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151348151.4936.8.camel@fc5.xsintricity.com>


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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 07:44 -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> 
> > As for using one Scsi_Host... there are several usb-storage devices which
> > attach to an entire SCSI bus (not just a single target), so can't make each
> > device it's own target.
> 
> This makes no sense to me at all.  The USB devices attach to a USB bus,
> the whole notion of a SCSI bus for USB devices is as nothing more than
> an abstraction, and should be able to be arbitrarily changed in the USB
> stack any time you wish.  In short, you aren't doing SCSI selections
> over a USB bus, so why should SCSI target IDs vs. host IDs matter?
> Aren't they just all mapped in the driver to the USB device anyway?

I guess my point is that there are some devices for which the concept of a
'bus' is -not- an abstraction.  These devices have a USB connector at one
end and a SCSI HD-68 connector on the other, and can be attached to 15
devices in a SCSI chain.

Perhaps I misunderstand your objection?

Matt

-- 
Matthew Dharm                              Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net 
Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver

E:  You run this ship with Windows?!  YOU IDIOT!
L:  Give me a break, it came bundled with the computer!
					-- ESR and Lan Solaris
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20060518172258.GL1604@parisc-linux.org>
     [not found]   ` <20060529031915.GB23405@parisc-linux.org>
     [not found]     ` <447AB2F5.2000700@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
     [not found]       ` <20060529130515.GE23405@parisc-linux.org>
2006-05-31 23:21         ` Asynchronous scsi scanning, version 9 Patrick Mansfield
2006-06-01 12:22           ` Kay Sievers
2006-10-26 19:53             ` maximilian attems
2006-06-01 13:14           ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-06-01 13:21             ` maximilian attems
2006-06-01 13:23             ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-01 13:26               ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-06-01 14:00               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-25 21:15               ` James Bottomley
2006-06-25 22:46                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-26  8:24                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 12:40                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-26 12:59                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 16:03                         ` Greg KH
2006-06-26 14:44                       ` Matthew Dharm
2006-06-26 15:18                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-26 15:44                           ` James Bottomley
2006-06-26 16:02                           ` Greg KH
2006-06-26 21:08                           ` Matthew Dharm
2006-06-26 22:15                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-26 18:55                         ` [SPAM] " Doug Ledford
2006-06-26 21:04                           ` Matthew Dharm [this message]
2006-06-26 21:20                             ` Doug Ledford
2006-06-26 20:58                 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-06-26 21:14                   ` James Bottomley
2006-06-26 21:21                     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-06-26 21:41                       ` James Bottomley
2006-06-28  7:52                     ` Hannes Reinecke
2006-06-28 16:03                       ` James Bottomley

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