From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI hotplug support Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:22:32 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021014172232.GA3538@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20021014054035.GA10686@codepoet.org> <200210141557.g9EFvLw02517@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210141557.g9EFvLw02517@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley [James.Bottomley@steeleye.com] wrote: > Needing kernel hooks in a different subsystem to solve a hotplug problem looks > slightly wrong to me. Usually when this type of thing comes up its because > we're missing a hotplug event (or a hotplug event doesn't carry the right > information). Could you elaborate more on the actual problem you're trying to > solve? > > James I believe one thing that we are missing is an event when a scsi_host is added. Even in 2.5 we are not receiving a hotplug event for the addition of a scsi_host, because of the way we init are LL drivers. This will be fixed soon. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com