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From: Mike Christie <mikenc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: How to resurrect offlined SCSI devices?
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:26:58 -0700
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To: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>, "Infante, Jon" <Jon.Infante@Emulex.Com>, Martin Peschke3 <MPESCHKE@de.ibm.com>, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

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()?

Mike