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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:45:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193676321.3383.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0710291209250.4882-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:38 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> No, that's not what happens.  The genhd's parent is the scsi_device
> and 
> the queue's parent is the genhd.  You can see this immediately from
> the 
> directory layout in sysfs.  Thus:

How has this happened?  The scsi_device doesn't know anything about the
genhd; how can it hold a reference to it?  If you grep the code, you'll
see that only the ULD's (that's sd, sr, st, osst et al) know what a
gendisk is.

James





  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-29 15:18 BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices (fwd) Alan Stern
2007-10-29 15:35 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-29 16:38   ` Alan Stern
2007-10-29 16:45     ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-10-29 17:04       ` Alan Stern
2007-10-29 18:47   ` Alan Stern
2007-10-29 19:13     ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31  4:25       ` Greg KH
2007-10-31 10:46         ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31 14:32           ` Greg KH
2007-10-31 15:15             ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 15:40               ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31 15:47                 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 16:04                   ` Alan Stern
2007-10-31 16:13                     ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 16:24                       ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31 16:31                         ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 16:42                           ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31 16:46                             ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 17:32                               ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-31 18:36                               ` Alan Stern
2007-10-31 16:44                           ` Alan Stern
2007-10-31 17:07                             ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31 18:38                               ` Alan Stern
2007-10-31 15:58               ` Alan Stern
2007-10-31 16:11                 ` James Bottomley
2007-10-31  4:24     ` Greg KH
2007-10-31 15:51       ` Alan Stern

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