Subject: Re: scsipi changes
To: Wiz <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/15/2001 21:50:45
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:34:49PM +0200, Wiz wrote:
> In article <20010713231551.A4192@antioche.eu.org> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to add 2 functions to the scispi code:
> > - scsipi_target_detach()
> [...]
> 
> Could you please also add some functionality to scsictl to detach
> devices?  E.g. for scanners, which you only turn on for as long as you
> need them, so that they can be properly detached when you turn them
> off.
> 
> Or is that the wrong function for that?

I don't know. Maybe devices should just be detached when the adapter returns
SELTIMEOUT ... but this would mean that turning off a drive would make
it detach. I don't know if it's desireable.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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