On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 06:53:59AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Hmm, I looked into scsi_add_device(). It seems as if the caller can't > distinguish between a new created and an already existing device. Am I > missing something? That's right. If you need that I still think it's better to add a variant of scsi_add_device helping you with that. > The race is not existing: scsi_add_device() (and scsi_remove_device() > as well) for this scsi_host is called in scsifront_do_lun_hotplug() > only, and this function is always called in the same thread (xenbus > watch). A comment seems to be a good idea. Do you disable scanning through procfs and sysfs as well? -- 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
