Subject: Re: SCSI drivers & devices resources
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/22/2000 22:11:53
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 09:02:19AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > 
> > > > For my needs I added a SC_ACCEL_NODEV flag to SCBUSACCEL, and an IOCTL is
> > > > done when a probe failed as well. 
> > > 
> > > Is this checked in yet?
> > 
> > No, not yet. I just did this so that I can keep working on tagged queuing
> > for siop. Now that I have it working I'd like to commit it ;)
> > I just need something that get called after a target/lun probe which
> > tells if there is a device here or not, so that I can alloc resources to
> > handle it more efficiently, or free the minimal resources allocated to
> > do the probe.
> 
> That's right, yes.

I found a way to do this without additionnal support from scsiconf.c for now.
But it relies on SCACCELL being called for each device found, and there
are a few resources that are wasted (but it's host RAM, not script resources).
So it's acceptable for now, I'll commit the driver.
But I woun't mind a better support for this :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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