From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:25:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050913222519.GA1308@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43273E6C.9050807@adaptec.com>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 09/13/05 16:36, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >
> >>A SCSI LUN is not "u64 lun", it has never been and it will
> >>never be.
> >>
> >>A SCSI LUN is "u8 LUN[8]" -- it is this from the Application
> >>Layer down to the _transport layer_ (if you cared to look at
> >>_any_ LL transport).
Not all HBA drivers implement a mapping to a SCSI transport, we have
raid drivers and even an FC driver that has its own lun definition that
does not fit any SAM or SCSI spec.
I think the only HBA's today that can handle an 8 byte lun are lpfc and
iscsi (plus new SAS ones).
So, we can't have one "LUN" that fits all, and it makes no sense to call
it a LUN when it is really a wtf.
-- Patrick Mansfield
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-13 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 19:40 [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices) Luben Tuikov
2005-09-09 19:59 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-09 20:11 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-09 23:25 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-10 2:44 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-10 5:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-10 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 15:06 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 16:27 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 20:08 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 9:05 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-13 13:11 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 22:42 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 12:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 17:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 17:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 18:47 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-14 20:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 17:52 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 20:31 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 21:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 12:49 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 20:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-11 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-12 6:17 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-12 14:57 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 16:45 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-12 18:46 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-13 19:22 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 20:23 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-09-13 21:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 21:37 ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-13 21:54 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 22:25 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2005-09-14 5:22 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-14 16:28 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-14 12:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-14 4:57 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-14 18:43 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-14 20:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-15 2:04 ` Sergey Panov
2005-09-12 20:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 20:09 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 19:39 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 18:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-13 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-13 12:47 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-13 14:58 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-12 22:39 ` Luben Tuikov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-12 19:04 James.Smart
2005-09-12 19:29 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-12 19:53 James.Smart
2005-09-14 0:58 Ravi Anand
2005-09-14 17:46 Ravi Anand
2005-09-16 7:28 Andreas Herrmann
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