From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262092AbUBXCUK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:20:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262095AbUBXCUJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:20:09 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:57055 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262092AbUBXCUE (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:20:04 -0500 Message-ID: <403AB48E.2040800@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:18:54 -0800 From: Mike Christie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Thornber CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [Patch 1/6] dm: endio method References: <20040220153145.GN27549@reti> <20040220153403.GO27549@reti> <40372BCE.7090708@us.ibm.com> <20040223100512.GB943@reti> <403A79E0.6080609@us.ibm.com> <20040223222928.GB14731@reti> In-Reply-To: <20040223222928.GB14731@reti> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joe Thornber wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:08:32PM -0800, Mike Christie wrote: > >>With this move if the path has to be activated first, will the daemon >>have to call some sort of ps_path_is_initialized() function before it >>calls generic_make_request? > > > Yes, I am planning to add something like this. Whether it needs to be > per path, or we could get away per priority group is probably a > question that you could answer better than me ? Do we need a > corresponding deactivate for some hardware ? Sorry, I do not know for sure. All the HW we have will activate one group and deactivate the other in one command or automatically. Mike