From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:34:40 +0000 Subject: Re: getting rid of chassis_id Message-Id: <20050910213440.GD13679@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20050908110033.GA27984@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050908110033.GA27984@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:00:33PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Does anybody have ever used extras/chassis_id? It calls scsi_id, then > looks up 3 numbers in a text file. These 3 numbers are returned > to udev and can be used to form some kind of "chassis mapping" for a > disk. > A horrible hack, pretty useless, unmaintained and broken. I really > don't think that it is ever was useful for anything. A task like this > is efficiently done with udev rules instead of maintaining an > external mapping in a file hardcoded to /usr/local/bin/provision.tbl. > > If nobody wants to fix it, it will only be available in the older > releases. :) Intel provided it, but I never liked it, and unless they protest, I think it should be removed. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ 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