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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: 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: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:09:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4325E077.3000103@adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050912164548.GB11455@us.ibm.com>

On 09/12/05 12:45, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:57:21AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> 
>>be free to increase it if necessary.  Note: you do actually need either
>>an array with more than two levels of nesting actually to need the
>>increase and no-one actually seems to have one of these yet.
> 
> 
> That is not correct, I posted before on this, the address method is in the
> high bits of the 8 byte LUN and tells how to "interpret" the LUN value.
> You can't convert from an int to 8 byte LUN (without any other
> information) and set these bits. See SAM-4 in (or near) section 4.9.7.
> 
> So some storage devices that want to use addressing methods other than 00b
> don't because we do not have 8 byte LUN support in linux, and then we have
> other problems because of this.

All true.

	Luben

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12 20:09 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
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 [this message]
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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