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> Under some scenarios Linux assigns the same > host_no to more than one scsi device. > > Can someone tell me what is the intended behavior? A number should never be reissued. > 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. I guess it needs to either only decrement the count if we are the highest one (trivial hack) or scan for a free number/keep a free bitmap. The devfs code has a handy little unique_id function for that - 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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