Shyam, Yes, the usefulness is understood. Hannes made that available thru the dh_state parameter (2/7 of this series). Just an FYI. chandra On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 00:41 +0530, Shyam_Iyer@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > >> Hence, there is no need to attach it again from the multipath layer. > > Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >Yes, you do. The user might have it's own custom configuration file, > covering new/unknown/unhandled/testing devices, which out of necessity > are _not_ > >hardcoded in the device table of the device handler. > >So multipath has to have a way of attaching device handler to those > devices, too. > > Quite agree. There are a lot of OEM vendors that may use for example the > LSI RDAC conrtoller but the SCSI inquiry for these devices return the > OEM device names. > The DELL MD3000 is an example of such a box. Instead of hardcoding > device tables of the handler if they could be configured using a custom > configuration file enabling new hardware becomes such a bliss. > > -Shyam Iyer > -- 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
