On 07/09/2015 10:22 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 01:09:46PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Add an 'access_state' attribute to display the LUN access state. > > Should we just reuse the ALUA values here as they part of the spec > and map the legacy implemetation values to it? > That's what I've attempted to; only I've displayed them as text, not as a numeric value. But sure, the idea was to take the ALUA values and map legacy implementation onto it.
> I'd also really love to store the access_state variable in > struct scsi_device so we can perform the checks for it in core code > instead of the device handlers. > That would be a good idea indeed. I had been pondering the idea of a revamped multipath integration, where this would be come in handy. I can easily adapt the patches here. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage [email protected] +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
