From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <tluben@rogers.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make the SCSI mid-layer obey the device online flag
Date: 06 Jun 2003 12:04:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054915493.1778.36.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE0B8D8.4020909@rogers.com>
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:52, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> So SCSI Core _has_ decided to know about ULP (block, tape, optical).
>
> Unless we (SCSI Core) generate those, it's a pickle to decide
> which are ``special'' enough commands. I think that we'll see
> more user space drivers controlling devices via sg sending
> commands to the device for exactly those kinds of problems...
> Else the burden on SCSI Core will/might be too great.
By "special" I mean requests marked REQ_SPECIAL. These are generated
either internally or via SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-04 16:01 [PATCH] make the SCSI mid-layer obey the device online flag James Bottomley
2003-06-04 16:51 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-04 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-05 0:34 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-06-05 12:59 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-05 13:41 ` Alan Stern
2003-06-06 6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 15:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-06 15:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-06 16:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 15:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-06 15:52 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 16:04 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-06-06 20:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 23:27 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 23:43 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-07 5:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 20:23 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-06 20:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-10 0:00 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-06 20:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 23:21 ` Luben Tuikov
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