From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org,
mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
vegardno@ifi.uio.no, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:43:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485AA8E5.7030805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485AA7EA.6080105@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter wrote:
> The problem is AFAIU not exactly how many Scsi_Host instances (initiator
> port representations, or something remotely related to that) are
> instantiated, but rather _when_ they are instantiated. On multi
> protocol buses or networks like USB and FireWire, it makes sense to
> create the SCSI initiator port representation when we discovered that
> there are actually SCSI targets on the bus or network.
>
> scsi_scan's API
scsi_wait_scan's API
> is geared towards drivers which create one or more
> initiator port representations right up front before going on target
> discovery, right?
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 20:21 Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 21:08 ` Alan Stern
2008-04-24 21:25 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 22:56 ` Greg KH
2008-04-24 23:30 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 6:30 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:04 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 8:19 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 15:35 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 16:05 ` Greg KH
2008-04-25 6:09 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:53 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-25 8:15 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 9:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 18:43 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-06-19 18:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 19:52 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-06-19 20:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 21:19 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 19:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 20:34 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 21:39 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-19 23:13 ` David Brownell
2008-06-20 9:53 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-06-20 14:14 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-06-20 15:15 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-20 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-20 15:42 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-20 16:37 ` Stefan Richter
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