Re: HP (Compaq) Smart Array 5xxx controller SCSI driver

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:12 -0500
scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:32:45AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > CC'ed linux-scsi, why did you drop it?
> 
> You mean my SCSI cciss driver?  For a few reasons:

Ah, I just meant that you dropped linux-scsi mailing list in the
previous mail though I sent my first RFC mail to linux-kernel and
linux-scsi.


> With help from udev it is less disruptive, but I'm still unsure
> about how smoothly such a change will fit in with the installation 
> process of various distributions.

They need to make sure that udev cciss rules match with the kernel
configuration but I don't think it's difficult.


> As for the patches I mentioned which were previously ignored
> for improving how the current cciss SCSI code handled hot 
> plogging, if you're curious about that, check here:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120213565000426&w=4
> 
> A change like that becomes more important if logical drives
> are exposed through the scsi layer.

We need to think about the best way to map (expose) logical and
physical drivers to SCSI luns. As I wrote before, I'm interested in
how HP SCSI driver does.
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