Re: SCSI host numbers?

[Richard Gooch]

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,

					Richard....
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