From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Surekha.PC" <surekhap@cisco.com>
Cc: 'Kai Makisara' <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sysfs does not recognise tape devices ?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:21:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031107112114.A3302@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001701c3a426$37fa5110$a0074d0a@apac.cisco.com>; from surekhap@cisco.com on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:54:03AM +0530
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:54:03AM +0530, Surekha.PC wrote:
>
> Kai,
>
> Thanks for the information.
> The "/sys/bus/scsi/devices/" shows tape device attributes except for
> device name. This is important w.r.t iSCSI devices where we use "udev"
> to create device nodes from sysfs lookup. Can you please let me know how
> soon the feature unfreeze will happen and when this feature can be made
> part of the 2.6 kernel?
Note that the name shows in sysfs really is an internal identifier for the
kernel. If you want to populate your /dev/iscsi tree using udev calling
mknod with the dev_t from the dev attribute might be a much better choice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-07 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-05 12:25 Sysfs does not recognise tape devices ? Surekha.PC
2003-11-05 21:25 ` Kai Makisara
2003-11-06 5:24 ` Surekha.PC
2003-11-07 11:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-11-06 23:00 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-09 21:23 ` Kai Makisara
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