Re: Return of PENDING status to SCSI driver

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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> >> If you are using the existing USB mass storage infrastructure then
> >>  it will not work. This is because all commands are issued from a
> >>  thread per host, which does a synchronous execution of one command
> >>  at a time. In fact it does not even have a Q, but a global one cmnd
> >>  pointer per host. And therefor sets can_queue to 1.
> >>
> >>  Are you using the existing USB infrastructure?
> >>
> >>
> >>  Boaz
> >>
> > I am replacing the default USB mass storage driver with the one I am
> > developing. But I am using the default SCSI and USB stack provided by
> > Linux.
> > 
> > So is there any another way to make my driver asynchronous?
> > 
> > -RD
> 
> I was afraid so.
> 
> There is a lot of code you will need to change in current USB storage stack
> SCSI is built with native support for queuing, but not so USB-storage-stack.

Boaz:

It looks like you didn't read Ramya's reply to your last message.  
Ramya isn't keeping the USB storage "stack" -- it is being replaced by
a new driver -- so there's no point talking about making changes to it.

Alan Stern

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