From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Sysfs does not recognise tape devices ? Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:21:14 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031107112114.A3302@infradead.org> References: <001701c3a426$37fa5110$a0074d0a@apac.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:57362 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264081AbTKGLVR (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:21:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001701c3a426$37fa5110$a0074d0a@apac.cisco.com>; from surekhap@cisco.com on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:54:03AM +0530 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Surekha.PC" Cc: 'Kai Makisara' , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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.