On 09/11/2015 16:07, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 15:47 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> The value of the parameter is never re-read by the driver,
>> so a new value is ignored. Let know the user he
>> can't modify it by removing writable attribute.
>
> This isn't correct. They're read in every time a new SCSI host is
> bound. I don't believe VIO is a hot plug bus, so the only way to get
> the values to propagate is to unbind and rebind the driver. Now if you
> want to argue they should be read only because users are getting
> confused about how to propagate the values, that's a different story,
Yes, but the user was me and it is easy to confuse me...
> but this is a standard pattern in quite a few drivers, so you'd need to
> argue why vscsi users are special.
vscsi users are not special, I'll remove this patch from the series.
thanks,
Laurent
> James
>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
>> index 6a41c36..3e76490 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
>> @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Dave Boutcher");
>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> MODULE_VERSION(IBMVSCSI_VERSION);
>>
>> -module_param_named(max_id, max_id, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>> +module_param_named(max_id, max_id, int, S_IRUGO);
>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_id, "Largest ID value for each channel");
>> -module_param_named(max_channel, max_channel, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>> +module_param_named(max_channel, max_channel, int, S_IRUGO);
>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_channel, "Largest channel value");
>> module_param_named(init_timeout, init_timeout, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(init_timeout, "Initialization timeout in seconds");
>
>
>
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