On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:54:19PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > The problem is AFAIU not exactly how many Scsi_Host instances (initiato=
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> > port representations, or something remotely related to that) are=20
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> > protocol buses or networks like USB and FireWire, it makes sense to=20
> > create the SCSI initiator port representation when we discovered that=
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> > there are actually SCSI targets on the bus or network.
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> I'm not convinced of that.  Why shouldn't we create one scsi host for
> all USB scsi devices?  I know that today there's a certain amount of
> per-device state stored in the scsi_host, but that should be fixable.

First, there are usb-storage devices which are USB<->SCSI bridges and
therefore support multiple target devices.

Second, you would still need multiple hosts when you have more than 15
target USB devices, anyway.

Matt

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