Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 05 Oct 2004 11:38:11 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:26, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > b) The scsi bus is a scanned model ... drivers must be prepared to > > accept commands for non-existent devices. How does the removal case > > differ from the never present case? > > It doesn't. But that doesn't explain why you want to issue the command > in all cases, even if we coule easily tell you whether it makes sense or > not? It makes no sense to me to throw away information you already have.
I'm lazy ... I don't see any point in going to a huge engineering effort to avoid behaviour that the driver must cope correctly with anyway. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
James
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