On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 20:34, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Hi Amit, > > Welcome to the club! > > You'll find a lot more other "bugs" in the Linux SCSI Core. Not much > has changed in the past 6 years, nothing in the core at least. > > As to your particular gripe: you're right. But I doubt anything would > get fixed or changed any time soon. There is very little competence > which also has power to change things in the SCSI part of the Linux. > Take a look at the SCSI mailing list archives for good ol' laughs. > > People here think that the concept of a "host" should be escalated to > the block subsystem, people here think that "REQUEST SENSE" clears ACA, > and that calling done() and then turning around to do eh on the > command in question is ok. People here think that using link > commands has something to do with barriers and atomic transactions. > "SCSI device with Target ports" is called "techno-gibberish" here. > > Anyway, I'd suggest fixing such things in your own version/git tree > of the kernel. > > As to naming: I always call such things "num_of_xyz" to be absolutely > clear that the enumeration is "0 <= index_xyz < num_of_xyz". > > Good luck, > Luben Hi Luben, Thanks for replying! I understand the competency part - but then, there are experts like you who can surely fix such problems. :) I would appreciate if you can come up with an acceptable patch for this. Thanks again! Regards, Amit Arora - : 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
