Re: FWD: [BK PATCH] SCSI host num allocation improvement

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:37:13AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:32, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On the same token, if you hot plug/unplug a single device (not a host)
> > on the same host, you will already have this problem. This wont make the
> > problem any worse or better. Devices are more likely to get
> > plugged/unplugged anyway (well, in the case of usb/firewire you
> > plug/unplug a host/dev combination, but still).
> 
> Simply having races is not an excuse for introducing more, particularly
> when they're under our control.
> 
> This represents a behaviour change in a stable kernel introducing a
> potential problem in hotplug and solving a fixable issue in a single
> user application tool.
> 
> What I'm not yet convinced of is that the benefits outweigh the risks.

The problems you keep raising already exist and aren't going to be
increased by this patch.

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