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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 6:40 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; ohering@suse.com;
> jbottomley@parallels.com; hch@infradead.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
> apw@canonical.com; vkuznets@redhat.com; jasowang@redhat.com;
> martin.petersen@oracle.com; hare@suse.de
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on
> Hyper-V
> 
> 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.

Till recently I had not. However, we do support publishing wwn in the guest and
some customers wanted this. That is the reason I am attaching FC transport and working
through the issues. With this change, I now have wwn names published in the guest and I can
also issue manual scan.


Regards,

K. Y 

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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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