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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: disable automatic target scan
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:47:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E7B006.6020809@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1y49kfwa9.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 03/15/2016 12:57 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> writes:
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> index 97074c9..929204b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
>> @@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_luns,
>>  #define SCSI_SCAN_TYPE_DEFAULT "sync"
>>  #endif
>>  
>> -char scsi_scan_type[6] = SCSI_SCAN_TYPE_DEFAULT;
>> +char scsi_scan_type[9] = SCSI_SCAN_TYPE_DEFAULT;
>>  
>> -module_param_string(scan, scsi_scan_type, sizeof(scsi_scan_type), S_IRUGO);
>> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(scan, "sync, async or none");
>> +module_param_string(scan, scsi_scan_type, sizeof(scsi_scan_type),
>> +		    S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(scan, "sync, async, disabled, or none");
> 
> So "disabled" is "sometimes enabled" and "none" is "really disabled"?
>  
'disabled' means:
disable automatic scanning, but allow manual scanning via the 'scan'
attribute.

>>  static unsigned int scsi_inq_timeout = SCSI_TIMEOUT/HZ + 18;
>>  
>> @@ -1604,7 +1605,9 @@ static void __scsi_scan_target(struct device *parent, unsigned int channel,
>>   * @channel:	channel to scan
>>   * @id:		target id to scan
>>   * @lun:	Specific LUN to scan or SCAN_WILD_CARD
>> - * @rescan:	passed to LUN scanning routines
>> + * @rescan:	passed to LUN scanning routines; 0 for no rescan, 1 to rescan
>> + *              existing LUNs, and 2 to override any 'scan_disabled' setting
>> + *              from the host.
> 
> enum SCSI_SCAN_FOO_BAR instead of magic values, please.
> 
Okay.

> What's this "scan_disabled" setting from the host?
> 
It's called a 'typo' and found quite frequently in the wilds :-)

I'll be sending a respin.

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11 15:33 [PATCH] scsi: disable automatic target scan Hannes Reinecke
2016-03-14  8:08 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-03-14 23:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-03-15  6:47   ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2016-03-15  6:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-15  6:53       ` Hannes Reinecke

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