From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 4/6: scsi_allow_ghost_devices
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418202022.B3393@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040418185950.GG4868@tpkurt.garloff.de>; from garloff@suse.de on Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:59:50PM +0200
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:59:50PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
>
> Feature.
>
> scsi_allow_ghost_devices=N
> This patch introduces a boot/module parameter that allows the user to tell
> the kernel to NOT set the first N devices to offline despite they would
> normally be. Needed for some EMC multipathing devices.
> This parameter is even documented in EMC docs as both RH and SUSE had
> such a parameter in their 2.4 vendor kernels :-/
I'm very unhappy with that. Could you explain why EMC needs this?
And even if we have to work around it I'd rather use the blacklist mechanism
for this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-18 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-18 18:59 [PATCH] 4/6: scsi_allow_ghost_devices Kurt Garloff
2004-04-18 19:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-04-18 22:14 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-19 7:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-19 12:06 ` Doug Ledford
2004-04-19 12:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-19 13:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-04-20 17:34 ` Patrick Mansfield
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