From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Patches for SCSI scanning Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:04:14 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040420130414.A24817@infradead.org> References: <20040418185751.GC4868@tpkurt.garloff.de> <1082330192.1969.37.camel@mulgrave> <20040420115419.GG4356@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:41994 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262398AbUDTMEY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:04:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040420115419.GG4356@tpkurt.garloff.de>; from garloff@suse.de on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:54:19PM +0200 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Linux SCSI list > * Patch 2: Drop REPORT_LUN config option and introduce > noreportlun and reportlun2 parameters (the latter allowing SCSI-2 > devs to be scanned with REPORT_LUNS). I'm all for this one. > * Patch 3: Allow host adapters to avoid REPORT_LUNS. Alson sounds okay, do you already have drivers that would set it? > * Patch 4: allow_ghost_devices parameter I still think this should be a blacklist flag as it's really a spec violation from EMC if they really don't get it right. And I still haven't an answer why they can't work around it by setting those magic devices online from userland. > * Patch 5: inq_timeout parameter Maybe this one should actually be a per-device tunable in sysfs? Sure, to actually make use of it for the root device you'd need an initrd but the distros do that anyway. > Sidenote: We should drop SCSI_FORCELUN and CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN, otherwise > people will misconfigure their kernel (such as the HP guy) and start to want > every multi-lun device listed. Agreed.