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Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V
Date 2016-03-15 14:50 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:52:48PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> The default user scan function associated with FC (fc_user_scan)
> is not suitable for FC hosts on Hyper-V since we don't have
> an rport associated with FC host on Hyper-V . Set it to NULL so we can
> support manual scan of FC targets on Hyper-V.

This isn't really how the FC transport class in intended to work, but
neither is the eh_timed_out (which I haven't seen in my tree yet).

It sounds like storvsc simply shouldn't attach to the FC transport
if it doesn't actually look like a FC HBA.

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[PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-03-12 21:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 14:50 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-03-15 15:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0100
        RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-03-16 00:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on Hyper-V "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-03-16 23:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-03-17 00:10 +0100
              RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-03-17 00:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-03-17 00:50 +0100
                RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on  Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-03-17 01:10 +0100

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