[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update scsi_dh infrastructure

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Wed May 7 18:45:59 UTC 2008


Hannes,

I do not see the patch :)

chandra

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:03 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi Chandra,
> 
> this patchset updates the scsi_dh infrastructure as laid out
> in my previous mail. In particular it does
> 
> - update the scsi_dh infrastructure to implement a generic
>   device table handling; the static device tables from the
>   individual handlers are copied into a generic list.
>   This allows us to do the checking in the main scsi_dh
>   module instead of having to implement it for every handler.
>   And we can then modify this list dynamically
> - Implements a 'dh_state' attribute for the sdev, which
>   allows for manipulating of the device handler itself.
>   So we can now attach, detach, and activate any device
>   handler manually.
> - And finally I've updated my SPC-3 alua handler for the
>   new infrastructure. Please include it in your patchset, too.
> 
> Patches are relative to your latest patchset.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hannes




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