On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:21:39PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > You're are stating that: > 1) You "only ever care about what's seen from a HA", > 2) "if you have muliple SPI cards that are on a single parallel > bus you'll have the same bus represented twice" > 3) "we have a scsi_device object for every lun > that's seen from a hba, linked to the HBAs Scsi_Host object > and not one shared by multiple HBAs" > > So in effect, you _want_ duplication, right? This is perfectly OK. > In fact it is desirable (and has never been under question). Yes. > This isn't directly related to the RFC. The RFC basically > outlines the result of *a SAS discovery process*. The discovery > process/LLDD can register the LU many times. This has *never* been an > issue of discussion. The point is that discovery must happen for each HBA separately because we absolutely do not want to have global state. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html