Re: [PATCH 1/8] scsi_dh: Implement common device table handling

[Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>]

James,

I am working on regenerating Hannes's patches based on Linus's latest
git tree (git5) which includes my patch.

Will send it ASAP.

chandra
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:20 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:38 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > Instead of having each and every driver implement its own
> > device table scanning code we should rather implement a common
> > routine and scan the device tables there.
> > This allows us also to implement a general notifier chain
> > callback for all device handler instead for one per handler.
> 
> This doesn't apply against linus head:
> 
> Applying scsi_dh: Implement common device table handling
> error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c:412
> error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c:108
> error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c:590
> error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c: patch does not apply
> 
> It looks like a conflict with this:
> 
> commit 33af79d12e0fa25545d49e86afc67ea8ad5f2f40
> Author: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 16 17:35:08 2008 -0700
> 
>     scsi_dh: Verify "dev" is a sdev before accessing it.
> 
> James
> 
> 
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