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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:03:37 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
       James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] clean gendisk out of scsi ULD structs
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:09:27PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Since a scsi_device object is usually a SCSI logical unit,
> one wonders why it would contain a gendisk object. Logical
> units aren't necessarily disks, they might be enclosures or
> just place holders that respond to an INQUIRY (e.g. lun=0
> when the enclosing target has other active lus whose lun!=0).

gendisk is just a tag for requests coming into given queue.