From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, vegardno@ifi.uio.no,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:49:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619204954.GQ4392@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619195240.GX19934@one-eyed-alien.net>
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:52:40PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> First, there are usb-storage devices which are USB<->SCSI bridges and
> therefore support multiple target devices.
This is true.
> Second, you would still need multiple hosts when you have more than 15
> target USB devices, anyway.
This isn't true. Look at topologies like fibre channel which can have
thousands of targets on a single host.
I would suggest that you want one 'channel' per usb endpoint.
--
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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 20:21 [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 21:08 ` Alan Stern
2008-04-24 21:25 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 22:56 ` Greg KH
2008-04-24 23:30 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 6:30 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:04 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 8:19 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 15:35 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 16:05 ` Greg KH
2008-04-25 6:09 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:53 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-25 8:15 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 9:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 18:43 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 18:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 19:52 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-06-19 20:49 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-06-19 21:19 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 19:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 20:34 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 21:39 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-19 23:13 ` David Brownell
2008-06-20 9:53 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-06-20 14:14 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-06-20 15:15 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-20 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-20 15:42 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-20 16:37 ` Stefan Richter
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