On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 16:51 -0700, Lee Duncan wrote: > Update the SCSI hosts module to use the ida_simple*() routines > to manage its host_no index instead of an ATOMIC integer. This > means that the SCSI host number will now be reclaimable. OK, but why would we want to do this? We do it for sd because our minor space for the device nodes is very constrained, so packing is essential. For HBAs, there's no device space density to worry about, they're largely statically allocated at boot time and not reusing the numbers allows easy extraction of hotplug items for the logs (quite useful for USB) because each separate hotplug has a separate and monotonically increasing host number. 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
