From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Linton Subject: Re: [PATCH] st: Do not rewind for SG_IO Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:26:48 -0600 Message-ID: <52F017A8.8010204@tributary.com> References: <1391157974-17512-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <52EBD2BB.8020705@tributary.com> <52ECFF7B.7000401@suse.de> <60EE5D9C-A799-4C8D-8962-DB9D7C1C8414@kolumbus.fi> <52EE2F2D.1010300@suse.de> <52EFACA4.6060001@tributary.com> <52EFB06C.8010101@suse.de> <52EFB0E7.3000504@tributary.com> <52F010F9.5090305@tributary.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay.ihostexchange.net ([66.46.182.55]:33913 "EHLO relay.ihostexchange.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195AbaBCW0v (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:26:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kay Sievers Cc: Hannes Reinecke , =?UTF-8?B?IkthaSBNw6RraXNhcmEgKEtvbHVt?= =?UTF-8?B?YnVzKSI=?= , James Bottomley , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Doug Gilbert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/3/2014 4:15 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > got through quite a few changes over the years. Not sure how much the > /dev/tape/by-*/ links are really used in the field, and what people really > expect here. I'm not sure they actually work that much either (random opensuse 12.3 machine). lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 3 15:31 /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3201034d7b4000007 - -> ../../st3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 3 15:31 /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3201034d7b4000007-nst -> ../../nst1 That is what shows up on my machine with 4 tape drives /dev/st0->st4. Its because there are 4 devices with the same I_T and different luns. The /dev/st* and /dev/nst* are correct. > Sure, but do they really expect the additional symlinks udev creates? We > are not talking about the primary device nodes, only about the additional > /dev/tape/by-*/ links. Oh... I suspect your right. If anyone is using it is probably one off scripts. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS8BeoAAoJEL5i86xrzcy7wBkH/jn9wewZIU7DrVRLc0OiHTDh Cm7Fo4wir01i8t29P+qL3EgsMzoe7w3xfCJ74rRks5UO5Vl13NmI0ck3rJ+ElTf7 9MJl40cgQgYB+ATCMy91mcObr6KTwkRI1n1oZZKV8YAd20mGSDIEv9FeqHGEWOC4 c3THh+6C0Fb63cYQ6X3oyK8twHNJl8HAJPRbnZ0oKdvSFdoAGBXoBxQ7mbsaWBcI HkTF6ArHdIMGMeI4F1PUROKMsSeEhwzudvJY3+fb7pQO3pmG6aFTCTVlkSZiDVNX uqhbB9cdz6c0GYHVg/3jCEsmdzMmlT/qY0jy6NChBPgdFpsS1CAfbnYW2eKtpS4= =ANj0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----