On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:52 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > The only point left addressing is that you never know how long you > should be waiting. It would be nice if the transport class / SCSI ML > could give some hint somewhere to the effect 'scanning in progress'. > Otherwise you'll end up using arbitrary timeouts and you'll always > find > machines where this timeout doesn't work :-( Well ... about 20s for a parallel bus is usual. All the other modern busses (FC, SAS etc.) are unscanned, so there's nothing to wait for at the mid-layer. Each does, however, have an internal discovery type process which it might be possible to expose via a new API. James - : 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
