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Date:      Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:39:07 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CAM panic in camq_fini
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907062337540.304-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907061724.LAA68469@narnia.plutotech.com>

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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> Redirected to the SCSI list
> 
> > When, after attaching to the CAM later with 
> > 
> >    cam_simq_alloc(1)
> >    cam_sim_alloc(action, poll, "umass", sc, unit, 1, 0, devq)
> >    xpt_bus_register(sc->sim, 0)
> >    xpt_create_path(&sc->path, NULL, cam_sim_path(sc->sim),
> >                        CAM_TARGET_WILDCARD, CAM_LUN_WILDCARD)
> > 
> > doing an immediate detach from it again, like so:
> > 
> >    xpt_async(AC_LOST_DEVICE, sc->path, NULL)
> >    xpt_free_path(sc->path)
> >    xpt_bus_deregister(cam_sim_path(sc->sim))
> >    cam_sim_free(sc->sim, /*free_devq*/TRUE)
> 
> Here's a fix for one of the detach bugs.  There really is no
> guarantee that the detach of SIMs will work right now and since
> the new-bus stuff for detach hasn't settled, I don't know how
> much effort towards this is worth while right now...

I have some hopefully good ideas about fixing detach (and unload). When I
get a chance, I will try to write up a description of how I think the
thing has to work.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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