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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, ohering@suse.com,
	jbottomley@parallels.com, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com,
	vkuznets@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, hare@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 06:40:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160315134009.GA3595@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457819568-6586-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:52:48PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> The default user scan function associated with FC (fc_user_scan)
> is not suitable for FC hosts on Hyper-V since we don't have
> an rport associated with FC host on Hyper-V . Set it to NULL so we can
> support manual scan of FC targets on Hyper-V.

This isn't really how the FC transport class in intended to work, but
neither is the eh_timed_out (which I haven't seen in my tree yet).

It sounds like storvsc simply shouldn't attach to the FC transport
if it doesn't actually look like a FC HBA.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-12 21:52 [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V K. Y. Srinivasan
2016-03-15 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-03-15 14:27   ` KY Srinivasan
2016-03-15 21:25     ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-03-15 23:01       ` KY Srinivasan
2016-03-16 22:34         ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-03-16 23:07           ` James Bottomley
2016-03-16 23:15             ` KY Srinivasan
2016-03-16 23:40               ` James Bottomley
2016-03-17  0:01                 ` KY Srinivasan
2016-03-18 22:41                   ` James Bottomley
2016-03-18 22:42                     ` [PATCH 2/2] storvsc_drv: make use of the lightweight FC transport class James Bottomley
2016-03-20 18:58                     ` [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V KY Srinivasan
2016-03-22 20:10                       ` KY Srinivasan
2016-03-30  6:39                     ` KY Srinivasan

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