From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: "Philip R. Auld" <pauld@egenera.com>
Cc: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] scsi_id 0.1 - generate unique scsi id
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:29:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031028082903.A9789@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031028104054.K4263@vienna.EGENERA.COM>; from pauld@egenera.com on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:40:54AM -0500
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:40:54AM -0500, Philip R. Auld wrote:
> Does udev need to care about multi-pathing? I'm not sure that it does - it doesn't
> do multi-pathing, it just makes device nodes, right?
Right.
> It seems that if we want the underlying paths to show up as separate named devices
> we would need to use an ID key that is different from the one that the multipath
> detection code uses so that we do get the underlying paths. That's why I
> suggested the below.
> Do md/dm devices get created by udev? Then the problem shows up again.
> We'd get the md device named "disk-1" as well :)
They are on different busses, so udev should (but does not now) use the
bus plus the callout value to figure out the name. This is needed
independent of scsi (though only a scsi callout exists today).
-- Patrick Mansfield
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-28 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 23:58 [announce] scsi_id 0.1 - generate unique scsi id Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-22 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-22 7:42 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-10-22 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-22 8:05 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-10-22 15:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-22 16:15 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-22 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-23 7:33 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-10-24 21:33 ` Steven Dake
2003-10-27 14:16 ` Philip R. Auld
2003-10-27 15:27 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-27 17:06 ` Philip R. Auld
2003-10-27 17:31 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-28 14:19 ` Philip R. Auld
2003-10-28 15:06 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-28 15:40 ` Philip R. Auld
2003-10-28 16:29 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
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