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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LDM scsi upper level updates and scsihosts parm
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:32:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030531103255.A28131@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030531010844.GA25468@beaverton.ibm.com>; from andmike@us.ibm.com on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:08:45PM -0700

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:08:45PM -0700, Mike Anderson wrote:
> The sysfs changes to allow the upper level to bind through the driver
> model interfaces breaks the usage of the scsihosts parm. I did not
> notice this the other day as I was running with one built-in driver and
> many modules.
> 
> I know there are issues with using scsihosts today (i.e., does not
> work if you come in after the upper levels have inited).
> 
> Are we going to remove the scsihosts parm or do we need a solution for
> this?

I think we should remove it.  It's racy and we have proper ways to identify
filesysystems bz label/uuid or scsi hosts by the sysfs output nowdays.

Btw, did someone update the scsidev util to use 2.5 sysfs output?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-31  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-31  1:08 LDM scsi upper level updates and scsihosts parm Mike Anderson
2003-05-31  9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-06-03 20:08   ` Christoph Hellwig

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