From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John Stoffel" Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:12:10 +0000 Subject: Re: howto get serial number of a tape drive? Message-Id: <19026.48394.441931.845876@stoffel.org> List-Id: References: <19026.7962.882759.229031@stoffel.org> In-Reply-To: <19026.7962.882759.229031@stoffel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "John" =3D John Stoffel writes: Kay> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 21:56, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Do I need to have >>>=20 >>> =A0Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL) >>>=20 >>> enabled on my system to take advantage of all the rules in udev 141 >>> (or newer) these days? =A0That might explain why I'm not having things >>> working as I expect. Kay> Yes, that's what we use since a while. John> Is it still considered experimental? We should submit a patch John> to Linus to change the Kconfig entry to reflect that Udev since John> version 1XX (?) wants to use this feature. And we should also John> mention this prominently in the Udev docs as well. John> Do you need me to spin up a doc patch for Udev on this? Heh, this seems to have done the trick now, I get my devices properly created on reboot. =20 I think someone needs to put in a patch to Linus to get the experimental label removed, and the default changed to Y now. John