Re: dev_loss_tmo behavior question

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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Mike Christie wrote:

> On 07/28/2010 11:57 AM, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> > I'm curious though, each driver would still need to seed the rport's
> > dev_loss_tmo value (in the case of qla2xxx,
> > ha->port_down_retry_count), but, by doing so after rport-addition
> > (fc_remote_port_add()), the driver could still overwrite a previous
> > sysfs setting.  Internally, upon rport creation, the dev_loss_tmo
> > value is seeding with fc_dev_loss_tmo (a module parameter -- 60
> > seconds).  Should we extend the transport so the the 'default seeding
> > value' can be specified once at fc_host creation-time?
> >
> 
> I was going to add a fc_transport callout that gets called when the 
> rport is allocated so drivers can do other rport initialization if they 
> wanted. It is only called the first time when it is actually allocated 
> not every time fc_remote_port_add is called. Would that be more useful?

I'm fine with that too...

-- av
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