From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] exposing the sdev_target in sysfs
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:24:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040904072427.GA19656@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094254851.1712.28.camel@mulgrave>
On Fri, Sep 03, James Bottomley wrote:
> The aim of this patch is to give us somewhere to hang the per target
> timer that emulex needs.
>
> However, it will break the current sysfs layout. devices will now
> appear something like this:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 3 18:31
> /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:5:0/device ->
> ../../../devices/parisc8/parisc8:0/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/host0/target0:0:5/0:0:5:0
>
> (note the extra target0:0:5 in there).
>
> which may break some of the user land tools (although you're all using
> the scsi class interface to access your devices, aren't you? in which
> case you won't notice any problems).
I do something like this to get to the controller.
cd /sys/block/sda/device
cd `pwd -P`
cd ../..
But if target* will be a stable interface, its easy to change.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-04 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 23:40 [RFC] exposing the sdev_target in sysfs James Bottomley
2004-09-04 4:48 ` Mike Christie
2004-09-04 13:54 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-06 1:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-06 2:05 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-04 7:24 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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