Hi Rob, I've observed the same, I would also expect that there should be a way to completely remove(cleanup) no longer used dasds from the driver.
I would be interested to hear more detail what set nnn off/on does too. Holger? Bernd On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > I notice a few inconsistencies in the dynamic attach/detach > stuff through /proc/dasd/devices, and I'm wondering if this > is going to be changed or that it stays like this. > > - there appears to be only a way to *add* devices to the > range of addresses the dasd driver likes. I think you want > to remove them too in case you need those addresses > again. it would also make you run out of minor numbers > when you don't want to re-use old addresses. [...] > - the 'set nnn off' appears to work more like 'flush' since > it does not prevent the dasd driver from picking up that > device at a machine check. I think 'off' should mean not > to catch the machine check, unless you set it 'on' again. > > Any comments? > > Rob >
