On 12/16/14 16:30, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 12/16/2014 09:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Sounds like a good topic, altough I hope we'll see considerable >> progress before LSF on this item.. > > Full integration requires a change of the SCSI device model; > currently struct scsi_device has a fixed type and inquiry data, so > rescan is essentially a no-op. > So the current model requires the complete removal of the device and > a rescan on the host. > Doing that from within the SCSI stack will open quite some > interesting race conditions, let alone interesting userspace > interactions. > Alternatively we can change the model to allow for a change of the > inquiry data, but that should be discussed. > > And then there is the Power-On/Reset handling, which probably would > warrant a discussion on its own ...
Hello Hannes and Christoph, If any of the topics raised by Hannes have not been resolved before the LSF/MM starts I'm definitely interested in attending this discussion. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
