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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>,
	Martin Peschke3 <MPESCHKE@de.ibm.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hidden scsi devices
Date: 22 Jan 2004 14:46:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074800777.1798.31.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040122194307.GH2611@beaverton.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:43, Mike Anderson wrote:
> Trying to understand the scope of support for the LLDD. While just
> changing the device_type would be a small change, intercepting future
> inquiry commands to ensure all future device_types returned this new
> value would be larger. 
> 
> Is your comment to change the device type to stop binding also include
> this intercept capability.

No, this was just thinking about a short term fix in the driver (without
having to propagate it through the mid layer).  Lying to the mid layer
always ends up being more trouble than it's worth.

> It would seem that if in the future we would want some user space binding
> control that adding this LLDD device_type modification would be more
> code to clean out vs just not setting a no bind bit anymore.

Yes, I think this is the correct future direction as well.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22 15:57 [PATCH] Hidden scsi devices Martin Peschke3
2004-01-22 17:07 ` Brian King
2004-01-22 17:22   ` James Bottomley
2004-01-22 17:33     ` Brian King
2004-01-22 17:50       ` James Bottomley
2004-01-22 18:42         ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-22 19:43         ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-22 19:46           ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-01-22 20:13             ` Brian King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-22 15:21 Brian King
2004-01-22 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig

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