From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add SCSI reset ioctls to scsi_ioctl.c (and sd and sr)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:48:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414E6F3E.4070502@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095526671.2483.5.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley wrote:
> The purpose of this patch is to allow a SCSI reset to be issued directly
> to the devices without having to go via sg. Because the reset may be
> issued even while the device is in recovery, this had to be done via a
> new api (sd won't invoke scsi_ioctl() while the device is in recovery).
James,
Perhaps there should be a new reset called:
...RESET_LOGICAL_UNIT
as this is now defined as a task management function in SAM-3.
If so ...RESET_DEVICE might get a synonym: ...RESET_TARGET.
Most transports support a RESET_TARGET while RESET_BUS is
SPI specific (is there an FCP equivalent?).
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 16:57 [PATCH] add SCSI reset ioctls to scsi_ioctl.c (and sd and sr) James Bottomley
2004-09-18 19:49 ` Kai Makisara
2004-09-19 2:39 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-20 5:48 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2004-09-20 13:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-20 14:53 ` Luben Tuikov
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