From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
To: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] hpsa: expose enclosures
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:24:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af59c314-358c-0dba-722f-c582eabf1092@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D194F331B4F@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net>
On 03/07/2017 04:05 PM, Don Brace wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@suse.de]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:55 AM
>> 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;
>> Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>; Don Brace
>> <don.brace@microsemi.com>; Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
>> Subject: [PATCHv2] hpsa: expose enclosures
>>
>> EXTERNAL EMAIL
>>
>>
>> Some servers have a built-in enclosure which will show up on the
>> same bus as the internal physical devices. This patch fixes the
>> driver to expose them.
>>
>> Cc: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
>
> Masking various SES targets is a conscious choice, not a design oversight.
> So, I have to decline this patch.,
>
Would you be okay with a module parameter for this?
It really feels stupid to present the user with an enclosure device
during boot (as hpsa presents all physical LUNs during booting), but not
exporting it to the user.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-07 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 10:55 [PATCHv2] hpsa: expose enclosures Hannes Reinecke
2017-03-07 15:05 ` Don Brace
2017-03-07 15:24 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2017-03-07 16:33 ` Don Brace
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