From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Fix various bugs in the target code
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:15:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250003701.4301.31.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0908111109470.2562-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 11:12 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > > scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() would call transport_configure_device()
> > > for a target each time a new device was added under that
> > > target. The call has been moved to scsi_target_add(), where
> > > it will be made only once.
> >
> > That, unfortunately is an SPI required feature ... we can't actually
> > configure the target until we have a device because of the way SPI
> > parameters work.
>
> Would it be sufficient to call transport_configure_device() only the
> first time a device is added?
No, because of renegotiations ... it would be sufficient only to call it
the last time a device is added, but we don't know when that will be.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 15:08 [PATCH 4/7] Fix various bugs in the target code Alan Stern
2009-08-10 15:53 ` James Bottomley
2009-08-10 19:05 ` Alan Stern
2009-08-11 15:12 ` Alan Stern
2009-08-11 15:15 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2009-08-12 18:31 ` Alan Stern
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2009-08-13 14:25 Alan Stern
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