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Hello, Under some scenarios Linux assigns the same host_no to more than one scsi device. Can someone tell me what is the intended behavior? The problem is that a newly registered device gets its host_no from max_scsi_host. max_scsi_host is decremented when a device driver is unregistered (see drivers/scsi/host.c) allowing a second new host to reuse the same host_no. A device that was already in use (but the module was unloaded and reloaded gets its old host_no that was kept in scsi_host_no_list. host_id's in scsi_host_no_list can also be reserved at boot time (though I never tried that). This rarely happens except when there are two or more dynamic scsi hosts (I had i with ide-scsi and usb-storage). I could mount devices even when they were on conflicting host numbers (/dev/sda on usb-storage and /dev/scd0 on ide-scsi). I could access only one of the devices via the generic-scsi interface (/dev/sgX). I do not know what other things can get broken if scsi host get conflicting host id. This was tried on linux-2.4.9 (RedHat). I looked at newer kernels but did not see an obvious fix. Similar bug reported also to redhat. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55876 Thanks, -- Itai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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