On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:30:02AM -0700, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:43:36PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:40:58PM -0700, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I really think these flags should be handled by the SCSI device driver,
> > > > not the SCSI HBA driver, much like is done for IDE.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > That might require 'wiring' everything (controllers and devices) in config
> > > file. Does it?
> > 
> > Yes, it does. But this way you could say "use sync transfers for disks but
> > not CD", instead of assuming disks are id <= 3 and cds are id > 3
> > 
> You can do it now because flags are 3 bits per target, and you can force
> 'don't disconect', 'don't sync' and 'no tags', and because of that
> there are no room for 8 more devices, so the question is where to find that
> place. Seems 'what Matt said'.

What I'm saying is that instead of finding more bits here, we could move
this to per-device flags. With scsipi, this would be trivial (exept the
"don't disconnect", but we could add this too without much work).
Doing it per-device would have some advantages (see what I said), the
disavantage being that this would require hardwiring devices to
scsibusses to controllers if we want to do it per-controllers.

If we don't go that way, at last I think these flags should be moved to
scsibus, so that we have an uniform way of controlling that.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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