Subject: Re: interleaved disk probing output
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/10/2003 11:48:13
At 11:40 AM 10/10/2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>This idea does mean we will have a transient allocation of locators, which
>are fed from the probe thread to the attach thread. For SPI, a packed
>array of 2-bit ints may suffice (unprobed, nothing, just-LUN-0,
>many-LUNs), but other busses may need something more tree-like. Once these
>locators get to the attach thread, they are turned into devices.

Let's not make then transient.  Let's attach them permanently to the
device so they can be obtained later.  We already keep the locator names,
we just need to save the locator value (as an array of int) in the device
struct.


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