Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:03:28 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: SCSI host numbers? |
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Itai Nahshon writes: > On Monday 14 January 2002 08:36 am, Richard Gooch wrote: > > So how about in scsi_host_no_init() we call alloc_unique_number() N > > times until we've allocated the required number of host numbers for > > manual control. These will never be freed. Then all other host > > allocations can be done dynamically. We would just need a flag in the > > host structure to disable deallocation of the number if it's one of > > the reserved numbers. > > See that dynamic hosts are also added to the list and *never* removed > from it (even when the host is unregistered). With that behaviour your > unique number functions would be an overkill because we must never > free host nubers. > > I suggest these changes: > max_scsi_host initialized in scsi_host_no_init. > max_scsi_host never decremented. > That would fix the problem that I reported.
But if you load, unload and reload a host driver, and it's not listed in scsihosts=, then won't it get a different host number each time?
Regards,
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