Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 11:58:56 EST


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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