On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:38 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Instead of having each and every driver implement its own > device table scanning code we should rather implement a common > routine and scan the device tables there. > This allows us also to implement a general notifier chain > callback for all device handler instead for one per handler. This doesn't apply against linus head: Applying scsi_dh: Implement common device table handling error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c:412 error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c:108 error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c:590 error: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c: patch does not apply It looks like a conflict with this: commit 33af79d12e0fa25545d49e86afc67ea8ad5f2f40 Author: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 16 17:35:08 2008 -0700 scsi_dh: Verify "dev" is a sdev before accessing it. 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