Subject: Re: interleaved disk probing output
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/12/2003 10:01:32
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:08:11PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> At 11:40 AM 10/10/2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >This idea does mean we will have a transient allocation of locators, which
> >are fed from the probe thread to the attach thread. For SPI, a packed
> >array of 2-bit ints may suffice (unprobed, nothing, just-LUN-0,
> >many-LUNs), but other busses may need something more tree-like. Once these
> >locators get to the attach thread, they are turned into devices.
>
> Let's not make then transient. Let's attach them permanently to the
> device so they can be obtained later. We already keep the locator names,
> we just need to save the locator value (as an array of int) in the device
> struct.
>
> yes, please.
yes, please.
--
Dan.