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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2010 21:59:36 -0700
From:      Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: patches for CAM SCSI probing, etc.
Message-ID:  <4BFB5938.3070305@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BFB3985.1030301@FreeBSD.org>
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Hrmm... you might be right. Let me think about that.

Alexander Wrote:
> you are slightly changing semantics of device probe. Previously, probe
> call means warranty that device will be probed from the beginning after
> the moment of request. It is very important for ATA, as probe function
> also initializes device, that is mandatory if probe is called as result
> of device reset. SCSI devices probably don't need that initialization,
> but what if probe was called due to inquiry change status received
> during probe sequence running? Are you sure you won't loose events here?
>
>    




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