Re: lsscsi-0.17 released

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:34:26AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> > Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote: 
> > >>Matthias Andree wrote:
> > >>>Does this work around new incompatibilities in the kernel
> > >>>or does this fix lsscsi bugs?
> > >>
> > >>The former. In lk 2.6.16-rc1 the
> > >>/sys/class/scsi_device/<hcil>/device/block symlink
> > >>changed to ".../block:sd<x>" breaking lsscsi 0.16 (and
> > >>earlier) and sg_map26 (in sg3_utils).
> > > 
> > > Heck, what was the reason for breaking userspace again?
> > 
> > Maybe the person responsible can answer. I'm only reacting
> > to a change that broke two of my utilities.
> 
> Probably better to cc the person responsible if you want an answer.

It was changed as there would be more than one "block" symlink in a
device's directory if more than one block device was attached to a
single struct device.  For example, ub and multi-lun devices (there were
other reports of this happening for scsi devices too at the time from
what I remember.)

So, in that case, your tool would have been broken anyway, so this fix
was required to make it correct :)

The fix was to make block devices work the same way as all other class
devices, which had this fix a while ago.

thanks,

greg k-h