lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Jul]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: HP (Compaq) Smart Array 5xxx controller SCSI driver
From
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:12 -0500
scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:32:45AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > CC'ed linux-scsi, why did you drop it?
>
> You mean my SCSI cciss driver? For a few reasons:

Ah, I just meant that you dropped linux-scsi mailing list in the
previous mail though I sent my first RFC mail to linux-kernel and
linux-scsi.


> With help from udev it is less disruptive, but I'm still unsure
> about how smoothly such a change will fit in with the installation
> process of various distributions.

They need to make sure that udev cciss rules match with the kernel
configuration but I don't think it's difficult.


> As for the patches I mentioned which were previously ignored
> for improving how the current cciss SCSI code handled hot
> plogging, if you're curious about that, check here:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120213565000426&w=4
>
> A change like that becomes more important if logical drives
> are exposed through the scsi layer.

We need to think about the best way to map (expose) logical and
physical drivers to SCSI luns. As I wrote before, I'm interested in
how HP SCSI driver does.


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-07-24 15:51    [W:0.092 / U:0.216 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site