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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] struct scsi_lun preparation
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:41:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4505D81F.5020300@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <664A4EBB07F29743873A87CF62C26D70307646@NAMAIL4.ad.lsil.com>

Moore, Eric wrote:
> On Monday, September 11, 2006 1:56 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: 
> 
>>> A pretty print for the current u32 would be very useful though for
>>> transports dealing with non single level luns (or address 
>> methods other
>>> than zero).
>> A better subject line would have been "HCIL isolation" I suppose.  I 
>> would like to see increased usage of the accessors already present in 
>> include/scsi/scsi_device.h, which would ease the transition from 
>> hardcoded HCIL struct members to a more flexible addressing method.
>>
>> Though, FWIW, for LUNs I would certainly like to see u64 rather than 
>> u32.....
>>
> 
> shouldn't luns be defined as: 
> 
> u8 lun[8] instead of u64?  

Please, not that argument again :)

It's purely semantics, the same storage is used, and only very rarely 
are the contents actually examined in either case.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11 20:43 [PATCH 0/2] struct scsi_lun preparation Moore, Eric
2006-09-11 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-12 19:33   ` Luben Tuikov
2006-09-13  4:27   ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-09-12 19:21 ` Luben Tuikov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-11 14:34 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-11 17:29 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-11 19:55   ` Jeff Garzik

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