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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB/desktop integration - how to guess /dev/sd* when hotplugging?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:31:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213013116.GF5351@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402130844.30279.michael@actrix.gen.nz>

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:44:30AM +1300, Michael Hamilton wrote:
> How do I systematically determine /dev/sd[abc] when hotplugging?
> Is sg_map from sg3_utils the best/only way?  In more detail...

Looked at devlabel?

> There doesn't seem to be an easy way to figure out the scsi
> /dev/sd* from the hotplug device passed in, for example:
> from /proc/bus/usb/004/002 to what /dev/sd*?

Why not just catch either the block hotplug events, or the scsi hotplug
events?  And why would you ever want to map usb-storage devices to their
usbfs entry?

> I was hoping there was a easy way to use /proc or /sys, to 
> get this info.

Look at /sys/block/{block_device}/device

That's the symlink I think you want, right?

thanks,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 19:44 USB/desktop integration - how to guess /dev/sd* when hotplugging? Michael Hamilton
2004-02-12 21:39 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-13  1:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-13 11:01 ` USB/desktop integration - how to guess /dev/sd* when Michael Hamilton
2004-02-15  2:38 ` USB/desktop integration - how to guess /dev/sd* when hotplugging? Michael Hamilton

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