From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:36:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050913203611.GH32395@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4327354E.7090409@adaptec.com>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> A SCSI LUN is not "u64 lun", it has never been and it will
> never be.
>
> A SCSI LUN is "u8 LUN[8]" -- it is this from the Application
> Layer down to the _transport layer_ (if you cared to look at
> _any_ LL transport).
Could you explain the difference please? Why is it preferable to keep
the LUN as an array of bytes instead of a single large integer?
> (It is also capitalized since it is an abbreviation.)
Well, we have two conflicting standards to follow here. That of English
which insists that abbreviations be capitalised, and that of the kernel
which requires that all-caps identifiers be macros rather than structure
members. We have to violate one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-13 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 19:40 [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices) Luben Tuikov
2005-09-09 19:59 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-09 20:11 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-09 23:25 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-10 2:44 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-10 5:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-10 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 15:06 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 16:27 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 20:08 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 9:05 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-13 13:11 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 22:42 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 12:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 17:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 17:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 18:47 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-14 20:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 17:52 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 20:31 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 21:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 12:49 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 20:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-11 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-12 6:17 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-12 14:57 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 16:45 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 18:46 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-13 19:22 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 20:23 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2005-09-13 21:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 21:37 ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-13 21:54 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 22:25 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 5:22 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-14 16:28 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 12:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 4:57 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-14 18:43 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-14 20:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-15 2:04 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-12 20:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 20:09 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 19:39 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 18:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-13 12:47 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-13 14:58 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 22:39 ` Luben Tuikov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-12 19:04 James.Smart
2005-09-12 19:29 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 19:53 James.Smart
2005-09-14 0:58 Ravi Anand
2005-09-14 17:46 Ravi Anand
2005-09-16 7:28 Andreas Herrmann
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