On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:02:15PM +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On 29.08.2005 10:48 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> worte:
> 
>   > Never use scsi_add_device with the fc_transport code. 
> fc_remote_port_add
>   > will do a proper lun scan if the added rport is a scsi target.
> 
> Won't work for all zSeries FC host adapters because they are
> virtualized and you can have several virtual adapters using the same
> WWPN/WWNN.  Using LUN masking and zoning it is not possible to
> configure the SAN such that one virtual adapter sees just that LUNs
> that are supposed to be used by it. There is a tool to write an access
> control table to the adapter. This ACT specifies which virtual adapter
> can access which ports and FCP LUNs ...

Ugly.

Maybe we could pass down a bitmap of exluded luns down the scanning path?
Starting from fc_rport_create down to scsi_scan_target and the underlying
fuctions?

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