Subject: Re: LUNS in NetBSD SCSI Subsystem/SCSI Configuration
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/02/1998 07:35:55
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Dec 1, Matthew Jacob wrote
> > 
> > The change is slightly ugly in that in order to not have to touch any HBA
> > drivers, I've added a nluns tag to the scsipi_link structure. This does
> > not have the same semantics as the max_target tag in the same structure
> > because I wanted a zero to mean the old default 8 luns per target
> > assumption.
> 
> Would be adding a 'scsipi_scsi.max_lun = 7' to all HBA driver be such a big
> deal ?
> I could do it if you really don't have the time, but I think having a
> 'max_target' and 'nluns' with different semantics is bad.


Mmmm... It's a lot of extra work. Personally I feel that max_target is the
bogus semantic. But I'll do the max_lun if you generate a list of all HBA
drivers that would need this change (I have this list, but it'd be nice if
you sent me the list so I could see I hadn't missed anything).

-matt