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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patches for SCSI scanning
Date: 20 Apr 2004 11:08:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082477331.2191.44.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040420160334.GO4356@tpkurt.garloff.de>

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:03, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Linux maps 8 byte LUNs to a 32bit number in scsilun_to_int().
> There are several ways to use the 8 bytes, but the mapping assumes
> a particular model which is often used and the mapping is nice in
> that it results in LUNs being 0, 1, 2, ...
> However, there are other possibilities. And as soon as the last
> four bytes are non-zero, the mapping will break down :-/
> The S/390 folks seem to have such devices.

This looks like it needs fixing in our lun mapping support, doesn't it,
rather than trying to work around it with a flag?

I'd rather only have an actual blacklist flag if there's genuinely a
stupid device with a real problem, rather than just a "we don't do this
entirely correctly in the kernel" problem.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-20 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-18 18:57 Patches for SCSI scanning Kurt Garloff
2004-04-18 23:16 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-20 11:54   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-20 12:04     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-20 13:02       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-20 14:38     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-20 16:03       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-20 16:08         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-04-21 13:48           ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 15:36             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-21 13:45         ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 14:10           ` PATCH 1/5: scsi-scan-deprecate-forcelun Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 14:12           ` PATCH 2/5: scsi-scan-blist_replun Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 15:14             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-21 15:30               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 16:03               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 14:13           ` PATCH 3/5: scsi-scan-no-offl-pq-notcon Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 14:14           ` PATCH 4/5: scsi-scan-dont-att-pq-notcon Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 15:02             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-21 15:24               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 15:33                 ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-21 15:33                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-21 16:08                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 16:18                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-21 16:55                       ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-21 22:51                         ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-22 20:39                           ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-22 20:45                             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-21 16:58                       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 16:16                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 15:40             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-21 14:14           ` PATCH 5/5: scsi-scan-inq-timeout Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 20:24             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-21 22:48               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-21 23:49                 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-20 16:26       ` Patches for SCSI scanning Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-20 16:42         ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-20 17:44           ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-21 13:52             ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-20 10:24 ` Fabien Salvi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-22  4:09 Martin Peschke3
2004-04-22  4:17 Martin Peschke3

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