From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Collins Subject: Re: FWD: [BK PATCH] SCSI host num allocation improvement Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:39:14 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040227163914.GO4019@phunnypharm.org> References: <1077842444.2662.123.camel@mulgrave> <20040227124811.A32109@infradead.org> <1077894499.1806.14.camel@mulgrave> <20040227151551.GK4019@phunnypharm.org> <1077895775.2157.22.camel@mulgrave> <20040227153247.GL4019@phunnypharm.org> <1077899833.2157.82.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:61147 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263036AbUB0Qkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:40:39 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1077899833.2157.82.camel@mulgrave> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Christoph Hellwig , SCSI Mailing List 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. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/