Re: What's the state of sdev->tagged_queue

[Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> simple_tags == 1?  in my source it's a bitfield.

Duh, told you I was out of touch.  I wrote that and I forgot what it was :-)


>>Currently, we use the value of host->this_id to skip the scsi device of 
>>the host controller in our device scan.  What I would like to do is 
>>create an sg device entry for this_id that is type processor,
> 
> 
> We already have scsi_get_host_dev to get such a device if the LLDD
> wants it.  Generalizing it sounds like a good idea.  But before
> that we need a 64bit dev_t so we can have sg devices for the
> ever-growing number of scsi_devices :)
> 
> 
>>is a fake 
>>device, that implements whatever ioctls at the mid layer level that are 
>>appropriate, but that also allow the low level driver to register a fall 
>>through host ioctl routine that can be attached to this device.
> 
> 
> I don't think we should another ioctl routine.  Just use the normal
> ioctl routine in the host template and let the LLDD check for
> host->this_id.

More out-of-touchness...

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