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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: ybin on powerpc
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:54:17 +1000
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> Well ... OK, we shouldn't break things gratuitously.  However,
> the /proc/scsi interface is deprecated and has been for a while now.
> 
> Secondly, as Matthew pointed out, the SCSI standards actually keep
> changing their minds about the names of these things ...
> 
> But, thirdly, in order to get around the issue, we provided the
> 
> /sys/class/scsi_disk/<x:y:z:i>/device/type
> 
> interface which supplies the numeric field value precisely so people
> shouldn't parse the translated strings.
> 
> So, it sounds like yaboot is also in need of modification.

CC'ed Paul Nasrat who is the current yaboot maintainer

(Paul, the problem is about a /proc/scsi change breaking ofpath. The
change will probably be reverted, but still, ofpath should be changed to
not rely on that crap anymore)

Cheers,
Ben.