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SubjectRe: ata_ram driver
Tejun Heo wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> Yeap, sure. It's the combination of things that always made me put this
>>> off. Is there a function I can call to just shutdown the host instead
>>> of destroying it?
>> Not really ... the process of unbinding the ULDs causes their remove
>> methods to call shudown. It is possible to separate this in the ULDS;
>> but the original design was to make remove and shutdown be similar for
>> the very reason that if you're removing the driver with unflushed data
>> in the cache, we'd really like it flushed (flush is called from
>> shutdown) because you have no way to talk to the device after this
>> without reinserting the driver.
>
> The problem is that libata EH and other stuff aren't ready to let go of
> the SCSI host up until the last moment and that last moment can't be
> moved before SCSI host destruction because shutdown sequence (flush and
> spindown) requires live EH. I think this can be solved by shooting down
> individual sdev's instead of destroying the scsi_host.

I'm curious how the picture would change, if we used a scsi_host for
each ata_host.

Jeff





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