From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:12:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20050824171241.GB16652@us.ibm.com> References: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C21D7A40@xbl3.ma.emulex.com> <20050822045502.GA7147@lists.us.dell.com> <430A05F2.10009@adaptec.com> <20050822215316.GB8083@us.ibm.com> <430BB779.2060209@adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:38123 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223AbVHXRNN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:13:13 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7OHD1u5007315 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:13:01 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j7OHD18a262482 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:13:01 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7OHD03U022788 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:13:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430BB779.2060209@adaptec.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Luben Tuikov Cc: Mike Anderson , Matt Domsch , James.Smart@Emulex.Com, hch@lst.de, jejb@steeleye.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com, Eric.Moore@lsil.com, andrew.patterson@hp.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:55:37PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > Where does udev get its label? You can call any script or program from udev and use the result. There are recent changes for persistent naming, the /dev/by-id naming used in sles9 is in current udev. A tmp /dev node is available to called out programs, so any pass through or regular IO can be sent to the device before it has its real name. So you should be able to get anything available on the scsi device that way. udev now has an "IMPORT" rule, see usage of scsi_id, vol_id, etc. in current udev rules. Followup posts should go to linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net -- Patrick Mansfield