[PATCH] usb-storage: move to SCSI hotplugging
The attached patch is my first implementation of SCSI hotplugging. It's only been tested that it compiles, as I can't get the current linux-2.5 tree from linuxusb to boot. It dies _very_ early. Greg, I'm not sure if you'll want to apply this. Linus seemed to want this very much, and it is 2.5.x... I say go for it, but I can understand if you have reservations. I would definately like to see this tested by anyone who can get a kernel to boot. This patch is quite large. Lots of things had to be changed. Among them: (o) The proc interface now uses the host number to look up the SCSI host structure, and then finds the usb-storage structure from that. (o) The SCSI interface has been changed. The code flow is now much clearer, as more work is done from the USB probe/detach functions than from auxillary functions. (o) Names have been changed for newer conventions (o) GUIDs have been removed (o) The linked-list of devices has been removed, and it's associated semaphore (o) All code dealing with re-attaching a device to it's old association has been removed (o) Some spaces changed to tabs (o) usb-storage now takes one directory under /proc/scsi instead of one per virtual-HBA (o) All control threads now have the same name. This could be changed back to the old behavior, if enough people want it. Known problems: (o) Testing, testing, testing (o) More dead code needs to be cut (o) It's a unclear how a LLD is supposed to cut off the flow of commands, so that the unregister() call always succeeds. SCSI folks need to work on this. (o) Probing needs to be broken down into smaller functions, probably.
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