From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: PATCH 4/5: scsi-scan-dont-att-pq-notcon Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:33:16 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040421153316.GE9918@us.ibm.com> References: <20040418185751.GC4868@tpkurt.garloff.de> <1082330192.1969.37.camel@mulgrave> <20040420115419.GG4356@tpkurt.garloff.de> <1082471881.1804.34.camel@mulgrave> <20040420160334.GO4356@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040421134511.GP28633@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040421141417.GV28633@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040421160257.A6793@infradead.org> <20040421152436.GD29699@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:27364 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263372AbUDUQpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:45:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040421152436.GD29699@tpkurt.garloff.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff , Linux SCSI list , Christoph Hellwig , Patrick Mansfield , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton Kurt Garloff [garloff@suse.de] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:02:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:14:17PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > > > Don't attach high level drivers (except sg) to devices with peripheral > > > qualifier indicating not connected (1) or not capable (3). > > > SPC3, 7.4.2. > > > > Please don't duplicate it in every driver but in scsi_bus_match. sg uses > > a completely different attachment path so it shouldn't be affected by that. > > Is it safe to assume it will stay like this? > It should stay like this through 2.6. The driver model does not allow multi-binding. Also all ULD are using the scsi_register_driver interface which means prior to there probe routine scsi_bus_match is called. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com