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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>
Cc: "'James Bottomley'" <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	"Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>,
	"'Matt Domsch'" <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
	"'brking@us.ibm.com'" <brking@us.ibm.com>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'SCSI Mailing List'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'bunk@fs.tum.de'" <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>, "Ju, Seokmann" <sju@lsil.com>,
	"Doelfel, Hardy" <hdoelfel@lsil.com>
Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:04:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209170455.GA6919@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57057A1AEA@exa-atlanta>

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:11:15AM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote:

> 4. Since megaraid driver does not know about these changes, it cannot notify
> kernel.

> 8. So, all driver has to do to assist applications is to provide the logical
> drive number to scsi address mapping. Application would say, hey! I
> added/removed logical drive number 5, driver reverts, here is the scsi
> address for it "host:2, channel:5, target:5 lun:0" :-)

How does the driver supply the mapping if it does not know about the
"change"? Is it reserving or telling user space the hctl that will be
used?

If so, why can't the driver call scsi_add_device(h,c,t,l) after the ioctl
to create the logical drive completes?

Though I am all for using hotplug to initiate scanning from user space.

-- Patrick Mansfield

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 14:11 How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? Mukker, Atul
2004-12-09 17:04 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-26 23:23 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-27  7:05 ` 'Patrick Mansfield'
2005-01-26 16:48 Greg KH
2005-01-25 23:37 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-26 14:48 ` Brian King
2005-01-25 16:27 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-25 16:52 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-01-21 22:11 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-21 23:58 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-06 14:20 Mukker, Atul
2005-01-06 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-04 17:25 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-01-04 17:42 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-03 23:02 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-01-03 23:40 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-16 16:51 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-16 14:27 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-15 19:42 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-15 20:22 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-10  0:31 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-09 23:37 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-10  0:03 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-09 17:31 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-09 18:00 ` 'Patrick Mansfield'
2004-12-08 19:25 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-08 18:42 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-12-08 20:01 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15  7:24   ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-15 16:48     ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-15 18:55       ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15 18:49     ` James Bottomley
2004-12-15 21:30       ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-16  9:54         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-16 14:41           ` Alan Cox
2004-12-08 17:56 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-08 19:06 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-08 14:55 Mukker, Atul
2004-12-08  7:16 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-08 14:07 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-08 15:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-08 15:59 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-08 23:46 ` Brian King
2004-12-03 17:18 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:29 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:58 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-12-03 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-03 17:11 ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-03 17:14   ` Matt Domsch
2004-12-03  2:04 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2004-12-03 15:10 ` Brian King

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