Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752766AbbLNP3a (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:29:30 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54564 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbbLNP32 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:29:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host_no management To: "Martin K. Petersen" References: <1444830904.2220.28.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <561EA018.7020700@suse.com> <1444848835.2220.50.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <5644BEE1.3010208@suse.com> <5649C79E.9070603@suse.de> <564A4EDC.8060805@suse.com> <5669F31C.2010409@suse.com> <1449847911.4067.200.camel@localhost.localdomain> <566DC3F0.6050206@suse.com> <1450105632.4091.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Cc: emilne@redhat.com, Lee Duncan , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Hannes Reinecke , Johannes Thumshirn , Christoph Hellwig From: Hannes Reinecke Message-ID: <566EE055.9050708@suse.de> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:29:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1450105632.4091.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2588 Lines: 69 On 12/14/2015 04:07 PM, Ewan Milne wrote: > On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 11:16 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote: >> On 12/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ewan Milne wrote: >>> On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 13:48 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote: >>>> On 11/17/2015 03:20 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Duncan writes: >>>>> >>>>> Lee> Martin: I will be glad to update the patch, creating a modprobe >>>>> Lee> parameter as suggested, if you find this acceptable. >>>>> >>>>> For development use a module parameter would be fine. But I am concerned >>>>> about our support folks that rely on the incrementing host number when >>>>> analyzing customer log files. >>>>> >>>>> Ewan: How do you folks feel about this change? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ewan? >>> >>> >>> Personally, I think having host numbers that increase essentially >>> without limit (I think I've seen this with iSCSI sessions) are a >>> problem, the numbers start to lose meaning for people when they >>> are not easily recognizable. Yes, it can help when you're analyzing >>> a log file, but it seems to me that you would want to track the >>> host state throughout anyway, so you could just follow the number >>> as it changes. >>> >>> If we change the behavior, we have to change documentation, and >>> our support people will get calls. But that's not a reason not >>> to do it. >>> >>> -Ewan >>> >> >> Ewan: >> >> Thank you for your reply. I agree with you, which is why I generated >> this patch. >> >> If we *do* make this change, do you think it would be useful to have a >> module option to revert to the old numbering behavior? I actually think >> it would be more confusing to support two behaviors than it would be to >> bite the bullet (so to speak) and make the change. >> > > I'm not opposed to having the module option if others (Martin?) feel > they need it, but generally I think it's better to keep things as simple > as possible. So, unless there are strong objections, I would say no. > Agreeing with Ewan here. Martin, I guess it's up to you to tell us whether you absolutely need a module parameter ... Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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/