Re: [PATCH] zfcp: updates for -bk

2005-01-25 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:08 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: Originally this generic device was part of your adapter structure. Now you're trying to separate it and causing these problems. What it's Could you please elaborate where this patch does cause a problem? You're look to be breaking

Re: [PATCH] zfcp: updates for -bk

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Peschke3
James, both Heiko and Andreas aren't available for several days. Let me try to answer your questions. You're look to be breaking the simplicity rules. Object lifetimes are very tricky things to manage, so what I want you to explain is why you have to make this more difficult buy making

aacraid 1.1.5-2372 waiting..

2005-01-25 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi, I have recently bought an Adaptec 2410SA raid controller and I am having some IO performance difficulties. Basically, whenever I access the configured RAID5 logical device the CPU appears to be spending most of it's time in the 'iowait' state (I am running 'top' and the 'wa' figure shoots

Re: [PATCH] zfcp: updates for -bk

2005-01-25 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:10 +0100, Martin Peschke3 wrote: Actually, you will find the adapter structure be an anchor for several other objects, or lists of them respectively. We tried to organize all the driver private data in a sane way. That means there is a tree of objects representing the

Re: [PATCH] add iSCSI session creation sysfs attributes

2005-01-25 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:37 -0800, Mike Christie wrote: Will do. One question though. If a function like transport_add_device or transport_setup_device fails, how does the caller detect this? It doesn't; the system runs degraded. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Announce] Emulex lpfcdriver v8.0.20 available

2005-01-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:26:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like a good idea, but I wonder if we have userland relying on those attributes already. But given that the fc transport class was mostly a joke before you encehanced it it might be worth breaking it.. You

IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread S Iremonger
For some purposes at the moment, working IP-over-SCSI could be rather handy... ;-). I can see some project(s) for this but I am not sure which actaully work. Many seem to want to have a particular SCSI board In short, I am stuck with a particular SCSI board in some machine(s) (e.g.

Re: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:19:12 + (GMT) S Iremonger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some purposes at the moment, working IP-over-SCSI could be rather handy... ;-). You probably are looking for: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ -- Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread alex
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:19:12 + (GMT) S Iremonger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some purposes at the moment, working IP-over-SCSI could be rather handy... ;-). You probably are looking for: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/

RE: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread Guy
Great! Now you can have ISCSI over SCSI! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:07 PM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: S Iremonger; linux-net@vger.kernel.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject:

RE: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread Guy
Ok, now my head is starting to hurt! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ming Zhang Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:04 PM To: Guy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Stephen Hemminger'; 'S Iremonger'; linux-net@vger.kernel.org; linux-scsi Subject:

RE: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread Ming Zhang
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:16, Guy wrote: Great! Now you can have ISCSI over SCSI! :) u can have iscsi over scsi over iscsi! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:07 PM To: Stephen

[2.6 patch] SCSI psi240i.c: make 4 functions static

2005-01-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes 4 needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/psi240i.c |8 drivers/scsi/psi240i.h |4 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 15 Nov 2004 ---

[2.6 patch] SCSI ips.c: make some code static

2005-01-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/ips.c | 244 ++--- drivers/scsi/ips.h | 12 -- 2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: -

Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?

2005-01-25 Thread Patrick Mansfield
Atul - On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:27:36AM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote: After writing the - - - to the scan attribute, the management applications assume the udev has created the relevant entries in the /dev directly and try to use the devices _immediately_ and fail to see the devices Is there

[BK PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread James Bottomley
This is mostly simple updates. There is one new feature: the move over to generic transport classes. This doesn't impact anything other than SCSI (although the idea is that it will in future) but it does introduce new abstractions in drivers/base (which I got Greg's sign off on). The patch is

RE: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?

2005-01-25 Thread Mukker, Atul
Thanks for the suggestion. After more exploration, looks like different distribution have different implementations for /sbin/hotplug. This may aggravate the issue for applications. For now, we will stick with a wait and watch after bus scan :-( Will probe the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for more

[Announce] megaraid_mbox 2.20.4.3 patch

2005-01-25 Thread Ju, Seokmann
Hello, Here is a patch for megaraid_mbox 2.20.4.3 and megaraid_mm 2.20.2.5. The patch includes following changes/fixes - sysfs support for drive addition/removal - Tape drive timeout issue - Made some code static I am attaching and inlining the patch. Thank you. Seokmann LSI Logic --- diff