From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make the SCSI mid-layer obey the device online flag
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:51:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306061751.48937.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054912742.1778.25.camel@mulgrave>
> For the remove_host scenario, it would be convenient just to do
> nice/surprise ejections on all the devices (from user level) and then do
> the clean up when the hosts device count falls to zero. That may imply
> some type of host->offline flag which disallows the addition of new scsi
> devices to the host.
There's no use in that distinction. The hard, _common_ case to be solved is
surprise ejection. If you have solved that you've solved everything else with
it. Keeping any distinction here just complicates things. It just blurrs the
issue.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-04 16:01 [PATCH] make the SCSI mid-layer obey the device online flag James Bottomley
2003-06-04 16:51 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-04 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-05 0:34 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-06-05 12:59 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-05 13:41 ` Alan Stern
2003-06-06 6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 15:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-06 15:51 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2003-06-06 16:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 15:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-06 15:52 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 16:04 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-06 20:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 23:27 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 23:43 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-07 5:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 20:23 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-06 20:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-10 0:00 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-06 20:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 23:21 ` Luben Tuikov
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