When we moved the device handler functionality from dm layer to SCSI layer we dropped the parameter functionality. This path adds an interface to scsi dh layer to set device handler parameters. Basically, multipath layer need to create a string with all the parameters and call scsi_dh_set_params() after it called scsi_dh_attach() on a device. If a device handler provides such an interface it will handle the parameters as it expects them. Reported-by: Eddie Williams <Eddie.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Eddie Williams <Eddie.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 1 + include/scsi/scsi_dh.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.31-rc1/include/scsi/scsi_device.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31-rc1.orig/include/scsi/scsi_device.h +++ linux-2.6.31-rc1/include/scsi/scsi_device.h @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct scsi_device_handler { void (*detach)(struct scsi_device *); int (*activate)(struct scsi_device *); int (*prep_fn)(struct scsi_device *, struct request *); + int (*set_params)(struct scsi_device *, const char *); }; struct scsi_dh_data { Index: linux-2.6.31-rc1/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31-rc1.orig/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h +++ linux-2.6.31-rc1/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern int scsi_dh_activate(struct reque extern int scsi_dh_handler_exist(const char *); extern int scsi_dh_attach(struct request_queue *, const char *); extern void scsi_dh_detach(struct request_queue *); +extern int scsi_dh_set_params(struct request_queue *, const char *); #else static inline int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *req) { @@ -77,4 +78,8 @@ static inline void scsi_dh_detach(struct { return; } +static inline int scsi_dh_set_params(struct request_queue *req, const char *params) +{ + return -SCSI_DH_NOSYS; +} #endif Index: linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.31-rc1.orig/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c +++ linux-2.6.31-rc1/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c @@ -449,6 +449,39 @@ int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queu EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_dh_activate); /* + * scsi_dh_set_params - set the parameters for the device as per the + * string specified in params. + * @q - Request queue that is associated with the scsi_device for + * which the parameters to be set. + * @params - parameters in the following format + * "no_of_params\0param1\0param2\0param3\0...\0" + * for example, string for 2 parameters with value 10 and 21 + * is specified as "2\010\021\0". + */ +int scsi_dh_set_params(struct request_queue *q, const char *params) +{ + int err = -SCSI_DH_NOSYS; + unsigned long flags; + struct scsi_device *sdev; + struct scsi_device_handler *scsi_dh = NULL; + + spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags); + sdev = q->queuedata; + if (sdev && sdev->scsi_dh_data) + scsi_dh = sdev->scsi_dh_data->scsi_dh; + if (scsi_dh && scsi_dh->set_params && get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev)) + err = 0; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags); + + if (err) + return err; + err = scsi_dh->set_params(sdev, params); + put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); + return err; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_dh_set_params); + +/* * scsi_dh_handler_exist - Return TRUE(1) if a device handler exists for * the given name. FALSE(0) otherwise. * @name - name of the device handler. -- 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