From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] scsi_dh: Make scsi device handler modules automatically inserted Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:16:39 +0000 Message-ID: <1247706999.8632.8.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <20090427180609.22758.93035.sendpatchset@chandra-ubuntu> <4A369320.2080202@redhat.com> <1245365306.4286.27.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A3BDFE8.3090003@redhat.com> <4A44D37A.10903@redhat.com> <1246986723.6277.63.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A538B13.8050809@redhat.com> <1246990464.6277.74.camel@mulgrave.site> <1246995401.9541.15.camel@chandra-ubuntu> <20090708155808.GA31204@infradead.org> <4A54E65D.8050706@redhat.com> <1247690016.9792.5.camel@chandra-ubuntu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:42090 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756860AbZGPBQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:16:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1247690016.9792.5.camel@chandra-ubuntu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: sekharan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, hare@suse.de, Peter Jones On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:33 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > James, > > Please let us know which way you want us to proceed ? Yes, propose a mechanism that keeps manual binding but allows the dm-mp user an exception. For the actual binding I still think it should be part of generic driver multiple binding. > We have been pursuing this for more than three months now. Well, the concerns I flagged at the outset haven't really changed ... they just seem finally to be better understood. James