Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Or we could make the host_no a u64 and avoid the problem ever happening > in our lifetimes. I'm amazed that anyone's had the time to do 4 billion > add/removes, to be honest. Assuming it takes 1 second per add/remove > cycle, and there's not even time to scan a bus in that time, that's > still 136 years. That was my thought as well, until I checked struct scsi_host and saw that hostno is actually defined as a short there, which makes the problem slightly easier to hit. So, we could just increase both of them to u64's and be done with it... -Brian -- Brian King Linux on Power Virtualization IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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
