> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 6:40 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Support manual scan of FC hosts on
> Hyper-V
> 
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:52:48PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > The default user scan function associated with FC (fc_user_scan)
> > is not suitable for FC hosts on Hyper-V since we don't have
> > an rport associated with FC host on Hyper-V . Set it to NULL so we can
> > support manual scan of FC targets on Hyper-V.
> 
> This isn't really how the FC transport class in intended to work, but
> neither is the eh_timed_out (which I haven't seen in my tree yet).
> 
> It sounds like storvsc simply shouldn't attach to the FC transport
> if it doesn't actually look like a FC HBA.

Till recently I had not. However, we do support publishing wwn in the guest and
some customers wanted this. That is the reason I am attaching FC transport and 
working
through the issues. With this change, I now have wwn names published in the 
guest and I can
also issue manual scan.


Regards,

K. Y 
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