On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 07:25 -0600, Yang, Bo wrote: > James, > I did respond to Randy earlier. Sorry, I couldn't find it in the archive when I looked ... although the scsi reflector seems to be missing quite a few of your emails for some reason. > About the module params being added : > > The fast_load parameter is for the user to decide at driver load time > if (s)he wants to skip scan of devices in PD channels. > > After driver is loaded the user cannot be permitted to modify this > value. If the user needs to see the devices in the PD channels, (s)he > may initiate a scan via sysfs/proc based on the kernel being used. > Once the user has done the scan, the fast_load value does not have any > significance and thus not exposed for reading. > > cmd_per_lun & max_sectors are also intended to be provided by user > only at driver load time. In the current implementation both these do > appear as read-only values under host# in sysfs. The current design is > not to allow these values to be modified on the fly. fastload sounds reasonable. cmd_per_lun and max_sectors could reasonably be altered at runtime ... just execute and unbind and rebind operation to make them take effect. 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
