Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:44:03 +0900 | Subject | Re: HP (Compaq) Smart Array 5xxx controller SCSI driver | From | FUJITA Tomonori <> |
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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.
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