Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53 pm, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>     From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
>
>     >     I am more worried about names slipping. I atleast hope
>     >     to see device names not changing by just doing
>     >     rmmod/insmod.
>     >
>     > But you see, the present sd_index_bits[] gives no such
>     > guarantee. In sd_detach a bit is cleared, in sd_attach
>     > the first free bit is given out. There is no memory.
>
>     But the disks are probed in the same manner as last time
>     (if the disks/controllers are not moved, crashed etc..).
>     So we will end up getting same names.
>
> Oh, but if next_index is 0 in the module (or reset by the
> init_module code), then also with index = next_index++
> things will be the same after rmmod/insmod.

Here is my problem..

#insmod ips.o
  < found 10 disks>
#insmod qla2300.o
  < found 10 disks>
#rmmod ips.o
   <removed 10 disks>
#insmod ips.o
  <found 10 disks - but new names>

- Badari