On 03/02/2016 05:18 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0800, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Main reasons being that >> a) it's most commonly on FC where you end up having thousands of LUNs; >> SAS domains are of finite size and you'd need to string quite a few SAS >> expanders together to achieve a similar setup. And iSCSI is ... well. >> b) FC already has the required infrastructure in place where you easily >> can suppress a target scan, making the patch really trivial. >> >> So rather than trying to come up with a generic solution and an overly >> complicated patch I opted for the simpler version :-) > > Having a global disable just for all FC is still odd. Either you > do it for all devices and always initiate a manual scan, or you > need to do it on a per-host basis somehow. > Understood.
Will be resubmitting with a global switch for all SCSI hosts. 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
