On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:11 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Drivers like qla4xxx and bnx2i (and it looks like some fcp drivers too), > want to be able to send a lun reset in the eh device handler and then a > target reset in some other handler. The old linux-iscsi driver, which did > the host per session like open-iscsi did the target reset in the host reset, > because the scsi command accounting that scsi_error.c does worked out > nicely for software iscsi, but does not work for hardware iscsi well. > > This patch adds a eh_target_reset_handler any driver can use to send > a target reset. > > The next patch will hook qla4xxx into it, and patches for iscsi_tcp/iser > and bnx2i will follow later when bnx2i is closer to getting merged.
We sort of have a mapping problem here. In the old ways of the error handler, since it was based on SPI and SCSI-2, when it said "device reset" what it actually meant was target reset, since that was the only message the SPI bus could send. It was only in the later SCSI-3 standard that a LUN reset came along. So, most resent implementations (even FC ones) send a target reset for this function. So ... where I'm going is that I'm not averse to adding a target reset (it has been suggested before), but then we'll have to clean up a lot of other drivers. Alternatively, you could just plumb target reset in to the qla2xxx where device reset now is. What do people think? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
