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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	andmike@us.ibm.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:58:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202151498.3096.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080124003203.18871.52040.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:32 -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Subject: scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE
> 
> From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch adds a new device state SDEV_PASSIVE, to correspond to the
> passive side access of an active/passive multipathed device.

Really, no; this isn't right.  The state field of a SCSI device is for
the SCSI state model.  Passive might be a valid device mapper state, but
it's not a valid SCSI state.  If these patches can't work except by
mucking with the SCSI state model, there's some layering problem
elsewhere that needs sorting out.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24  0:30 [PATCH 0/9] scsi_dh: Move dm device handler to SCSI layer Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:30 ` [PATCH 1/9] scsi_dh: add REQ_LB_OP_TRANSITION and errors Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:30 ` [PATCH 2/9] scsi_dh: change sd_prep_fn to call common code Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:30 ` [PATCH 3/9] scsi_dh: scsi handling of REQ_LB_OP_TRANSITION Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-01 20:00   ` Mike Christie
2008-02-04 18:59     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-04 19:02     ` James Bottomley
2008-02-06 19:00       ` Mike Anderson
2008-02-06 20:52         ` James Bottomley
2008-01-24  0:31 ` [PATCH 4/9] scsi_dh: add skeleton for SCSI Device Handlers Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-01 19:53   ` Mike Christie
2008-02-01 20:27     ` Mike Anderson
2008-02-04 18:54     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:31 ` [PATCH 5/9] scsi_dh: add EMC Clariion device handler Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] scsi_dh: add hp sw " Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:32 ` [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-04 18:58   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-02-04 20:15     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-04 20:28       ` James Bottomley
2008-02-04 21:19         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-09 12:45           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-11 18:27             ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-11 19:18               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28  1:03                 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-05 20:04         ` Mike Christie
2008-02-05 21:56           ` Mike Anderson
2008-02-06  0:46             ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-07 10:08             ` no INQUIRY from userspace please (was Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE) Stefan Richter
2008-02-07 15:01               ` James Bottomley
2008-02-07 17:05                 ` no INQUIRY from userspace please Stefan Richter
2008-02-07 17:13                   ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-19 20:53                     ` Douglas Gilbert
2008-03-04  9:06                       ` Hannes Reinecke
2008-02-07 20:42                 ` no INQUIRY from userspace please (was Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE) Luben Tuikov
2008-02-04 20:26     ` [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE Mike Anderson
2008-01-24  0:32 ` [PATCH 8/9] scsi_dh: add lsi rdac device handler Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24  0:32 ` [PATCH 9/9] scsi_dh: add scsi device handler to dm Chandra Seetharaman

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