From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: How to resurrect offlined SCSI devices? Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:48:58 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040526174858.GA1561@us.ibm.com> References: <8D43EFD7CCBDB24980134BE078C227E704E37B0A@xcm.emulex.com> <1085590517.2116.439.camel@mulgrave> <20040526171514.GA1332@us.ibm.com> <40B4D362.1080901@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:8895 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265750AbUEZRtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 13:49:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40B4D362.1080901@us.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie Cc: James Bottomley , "Infante, Jon" , Martin Peschke3 , SCSI Mailing List Mike Christie [mikenc@us.ibm.com] wrote: > Mike Anderson wrote: > >James Bottomley [James.Bottomley@steeleye.com] wrote: > > > >>I'd really like to see all fibre events (like loop up/down, device > >>add/remove) handled inside the FC transport class. From there, it > >>probably still make sense to use hotplug as the mechanism for importing > >>user policy. > > > > > >Currently there are no hotplug events generated from SCSI except those > >from add / remove of sysfs related structures. Are you suggesting that > >SCSI should call call_usermodehelper and generate events? > > What about kobject_hotplug()? Thanks, my mistake I did not look close enough and was still thinking that interfaces where not exported and we would need to roll our own. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com