From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ishikawa Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill scsihosts= boot parameter Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:05:49 +0900 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EE0C9ED.2D0EEE89@yk.rim.or.jp> References: <20030606075954.GB18838@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pl051.nas911.n-yokohama.nttpc.ne.jp ([210.139.98.51]:24004 "EHLO standard.erephon") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262033AbTFFQwm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:52:42 -0400 Received: from yk.rim.or.jp (really [127.0.0.1]) by yk.rim.or.jp via smail with esmtp id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:06:05 +0900 (JST) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig RE scshihosts=driver1,driver2,driver3... Are we really sure we want to remove this? There non-disk devices, say, CDROMs and tapes, which can't be handled by fs label and I had a feeling that the userland tools that looks at the physical connecivity might not be so well standardized (or made available on every major distribution.). Am I wrong about the latter (userland tools)? I am afraid that I will have to tweak a few system administration scripts if this feature is gone. (I don't know why this works on a PC I manage well.) > This feature is seriously racy, and doesn't work under many > circumstances. As we have proper ways to find devices by their > their locical naming (UUID, fs label) or physical connectivity > (scsidev, sysfs) it shouldn't be nessecary anymore. > -- int main(void){int j=2003;/*(c)2003 cishikawa. */ char t[] =" @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.,\n\""; char *i ="g>qtCIuqivb,gCwe\np@.ietCIuqi\"tqkvv is>dnamz"; while(*i)((j+=strchr(t,*i++)-(int)t),(j%=sizeof t-1), (putchar(t[j])));return 0;}/* under GPL */