From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Edward Falk <efalk@google.com>
Subject: Re: map gendisk (or blockdev) -> scsi_device
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:54:52 -0700
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:46:54PM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> 
>>Add or use the attributes under the scsi_device, then use the
>>/sysfs/block/sd/device symlink to find the corresponding scsi_device.
> 
> 
> yupp, the /sys/block/* attributes are really only meant to be for
> thing related to the actual block device, not the underlying hardware.

What is the difference between "actual block device" and "underlying 
hardware"?

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