Re: [PATCH] Hidden scsi devices

[Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:43, Mike Anderson wrote:
> 
>>Trying to understand the scope of support for the LLDD. While just
>>changing the device_type would be a small change, intercepting future
>>inquiry commands to ensure all future device_types returned this new
>>value would be larger. 
>>
>>Is your comment to change the device type to stop binding also include
>>this intercept capability.
> 
> 
> No, this was just thinking about a short term fix in the driver (without
> having to propagate it through the mid layer).  Lying to the mid layer
> always ends up being more trouble than it's worth.
> 
> 
>>It would seem that if in the future we would want some user space binding
>>control that adding this LLDD device_type modification would be more
>>code to clean out vs just not setting a no bind bit anymore.
> 
> 
> Yes, I think this is the correct future direction as well.

Ok. Scratch this patch and I will override the SCSI device type in
the scsi_device struct in my slave_configure routine to 0x0C.
Actual inquiry commands to the device will return type 0x00 - disk.


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Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center