On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 11:23 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > If you remember Rusty's guide to interfaces, this is a level 14 easy to > > misuse interface: "The obvious use is wrong"; since the obvious use is > > to put it in module parameters and have the problem go away (for > > now ...). Actually, I could be harsher and say it's level 17 "There's > > no correct use" because statistically every time you use it, you expose > > yourself to potential duplicate WWNs. > > > Now that you have said "there's no correct use" you have managed to > logic yourself into silly-land. > > That is utterly specious logic when duplicate WWNs are quite unlikely, > and furthermore -- as demonstrated by use in network drivers -- use of > the feature itself is not the common case. > > Field experience directly contradicts this entire line of reasoning. OK, give me your use case. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
