Re: [PATCH] scsi_set_host_offline (resend)

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

James Bottomley [James.Bottomley@steeleye.com] wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:32, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > Well, Linus wants this to work for usb-storage more short-term than
> > long-term....
> 
> Well, I think Mike's given us everything you need.  We can use the
> set_device_offline to alter the remove-single-device path to offline the
> device, wait for the returning I/Os to complete or error and then remove
> the device.
> 
> You can then trigger this from your hotplug scripts.

I believe we still need to fixup scsi_remove_host to not fail (i.e
return void) and call "hostt->release" when the ref count on the host
goes to zero. (I believe this was a point that started us on this thread
of work as the usb implementation was one device per host).

I have a work in progress patch that ensures that all scsi hosts have a
sysfs struct device even if the driver is not converted to the driver
model which allows scsi_devices to be true children of a scsi_host
struct device. This should allow the usage of kobject ref counting for
scsi_hosts. I am still working on plugging the holes in this support
hopefully I will have something out to the list soon.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com