[dm-devel] [PATCH] Associate HBA and storage in rdac_controller to support partitions in storage

[Chandra Seetharaman]

Oops. Sorry. By mistake sent an earlier version. Will send the correct
version.
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 14:34 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:22 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > rdac hardware handler assumes that there is one-to-one relation ship
> > between the host and the controller w.r.t lun.  IOW, it does not
> > support "multiple storage partitions" within a storage.
> > 
> > Example:
> > HBA1 and HBA2 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (1)
> > HBA3 and HBA4 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (2)
> > HBA5 and HBA6 see lun 0 and 1 in storage A (3)
> > 
> > luns 0 and 1 in (1), (2) and (3) are totally different.
> > 
> > But, rdac handler treats the lun 0s (and lun 1s) as the same when 
> > sending a mode select to the controller, which is wrong.
> > 
> > This patch makes the rdac hardware handler associate HBA and the
> > storage w.r.t lun (and not the host itself).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan at us.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c |   10 +++++++---
> >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> This doesn't apply;
> 
> patching file drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 158 (offset 9 lines).
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 381.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 389.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 403.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 526.
> 4 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c.rej
> 
> 
> it looks like there's a missing intermediate patch somewhere, can you
> check scsi-misc and tell me what it is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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