From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Geographic naming of devices using Udev for ATCA system.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:45:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326184535.GA23635@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2F75A5CCEF1E6A4C8CA2E75CF7F529E90237A66C@orsmsx409.jf.intel.com>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:41:51PM -0800, Sabharwal, Atul wrote:
> Hi Greg,
Ick, don't use my us.ibm.com email address for udev stuff, it will get
lost there...
> I have developed a callout routine for ATCA based chassis systems where
> we can generate
> Descriptive device names based on geographic information of the device.
> The geographic information being chasis#, slot# and host adaptor#. The
> end results is a name tree which is three Level deep instead of the
> usual one level tree.
>
> The user has to Manually provision the disk(s) in a file (provision.tbl)
> file and the chassis_id callout uses Scsi_id to find the serial# of the
> device. The serial# being the key to
> Get the geographic information.
>
> Would you be interested in including this into udev as an extra module ?
> Or is it too custom In nature and does not belong here ?
Don't know, care to send a patch to the udev tree that adds your program
to the extras/ directory? Then we can take a look and determine if it
should be in the tarball or not.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-26 2:41 Geographic naming of devices using Udev for ATCA system Sabharwal, Atul
2004-03-26 18:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-26 19:00 ` Sabharwal, Atul
2004-03-26 19:10 ` Sabharwal, Atul
2004-03-31 18:30 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 18:30 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 19:03 ` Sabharwal, Atul
2004-03-31 22:58 ` Greg KH
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