Subject: Re: interleaved disk probing output
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/12/2003 10:01:32
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:08:11PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    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.
> 
> yes, please.

yes, please.

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Dan.