linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host

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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:54:43 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host_no management

>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com> writes:

>> Well, I'm a bit worried about the loss of a monotonically increasing
>> host number from the debugging perspective.  Right now, if you look
>> at any log, hostX always refers to one and only one incarnation
>> throughout the system lifetime for any given value of X.

That's a feature that I would absolutely hate to lose. I spend a huge
amount of time looking at system logs.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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