Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932477AbVIMUgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:36:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932462AbVIMUgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:36:15 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:64942 "EHLO palinux.hppa") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932279AbVIMUgO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:36:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:36:11 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Luben Tuikov Cc: James Bottomley , Patrick Mansfield , Douglas Gilbert , Christoph Hellwig , Luben Tuikov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices) Message-ID: <20050913203611.GH32395@parisc-linux.org> References: <1126308304.4799.45.camel@mulgrave> <20050910024454.20602.qmail@web51613.mail.yahoo.com> <20050911094656.GC5429@infradead.org> <43251D8C.7020409@torque.net> <1126537041.4825.28.camel@mulgrave> <20050912164548.GB11455@us.ibm.com> <1126545680.4825.40.camel@mulgrave> <20050912184629.GA13489@us.ibm.com> <1126639342.4809.53.camel@mulgrave> <4327354E.7090409@adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4327354E.7090409@adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 22 On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > A SCSI LUN is not "u64 lun", it has never been and it will > never be. > > A SCSI LUN is "u8 LUN[8]" -- it is this from the Application > Layer down to the _transport layer_ (if you cared to look at > _any_ LL transport). Could you explain the difference please? Why is it preferable to keep the LUN as an array of bytes instead of a single large integer? > (It is also capitalized since it is an abbreviation.) Well, we have two conflicting standards to follow here. That of English which insists that abbreviations be capitalised, and that of the kernel which requires that all-caps identifiers be macros rather than structure members. We have to violate one. - 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/