Re: about scsi_hostlist

[Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:11:28PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote:
> Hi, I meet a problem when port my code to 2.5.47.
> My goal is to get all scsi disk Scsi_Device pointers.

Why?  A couple people on this list have been trying to put proper object 
ref counting in place, and doing this sort of thing usually violates those 
ref counting rules, so unless you have a true valid need to do this, the 
answer is probably going to be "Don't do that".

> For 2.4.18, I can use scsi_hostlist to travel through the list and get all pointer by comparing type if TYPE_DISK. But in 2.5.47, there is no such pointer. And that scsi_host_list can not be used.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get around to this? 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards. 
> 
> 
> Ming Zhang
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