From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:45:35 +0000 Subject: Re: Geographic naming of devices using Udev for ATCA system. Message-Id: <20040326184535.GA23635@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <2F75A5CCEF1E6A4C8CA2E75CF7F529E90237A66C@orsmsx409.jf.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <2F75A5CCEF1E6A4C8CA2E75CF7F529E90237A66C@orsmsx409.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel