On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:04:06PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > This objection runs up against an issue we discussed some time ago. > Should the intended meaning of scsi_remove_host be simply that the kernel > needs to stop using the HBA reasonably soon? In that case you are right. > Or should the intended meaning be that the HBA is actually gone > (hot-unplugged) and all further attempts to use it will fail? In that > case it doesn't matter. The best ways to resolve this issue may be to > have a separate scsi_host_gone routine or to add an extra argument to > scsi_remove_host. It must mean both because we don't know whether a hot unplug happened or not. The ->remove callbacks don't tell us. - : 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
