From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chandra Seetharaman Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] scsi_dh: Implement common device table handling Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:33:10 -0700 Message-ID: <1216315990.27507.254.camel@chandra-ubuntu> References: <20080717073804.588C518C6FD@pentland.suse.de> <1216315259.5515.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: sekharan@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:45352 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757001AbYGQRdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:24 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6HHXN6T022190 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:23 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m6HHXN6n124582 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:23 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m6HHXM8L004535 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216315259.5515.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Hannes Reinecke , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 > Date: Wed Jul 16 17:35:08 2008 -0700 > > scsi_dh: Verify "dev" is a sdev before accessing it. > > James > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html