Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758724AbYJWTAV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757906AbYJWTAE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:04 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:43509 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757671AbYJWTAB (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:01 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4900C9A9.7010104@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:59:53 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wilcox CC: James Bottomley , Fabio Comolli , Linux Kernel Mailing List , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-scsi Subject: Re: Possible bug in SCSI Kconfig References: <1224702340.6851.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1224704659.6851.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4900B4B9.4050103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20081023173917.GP26094@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20081023173917.GP26094@parisc-linux.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 26 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:30:33PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> - scsi_wait_scan is a special method to wait for devices during boot >> which only works with some hardware types. More general methods are >> available and have been in use far longer than scsi_wait_scan >> exists. Nobody fundamentally needs scsi_wait_scan, it is only a >> convenient tool for some users who choose to use it. >> Special features are traditionally per default off in Kconfig and >> are supposed to be actively enabled. > > What 'general methods' would those be? Waiting for the desired numbers of devices to show up. Or for a known device. scsi_wait_scan is optimal though if it is known at the outset how many devices (or how many at maximum) will show up. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =-=- =-=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/