From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:13:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4D878733.6020700@interlog.com> References: <4D7A870C.7040809@interlog.com> Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D7A870C.7040809@interlog.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: SCSI development list Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 11-03-11 09:33 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Martin Petersen recently sent me some patches > to add a --size (or '-s') option to lsscsi: > > # lsscsi -s > [0:0:0:0] disk ATA INTEL SSD 2CV1 /dev/sda 80.0GB > [10:0:0:0] disk Linux scsi_debug 0004 /dev/sdb 1.09TB > > Martin and I had several hacks at this. Getting > utilities to work reliably with sysfs across various > kernel versions continues to be a crap shoot. So > I am putting this out as a beta and hoping that > anyone with problems will contact me (or Martin). > > Note that this logic decodes /sys/block/sda/size > (for example) so disks that are present but without > a block interface (e.g. physical disks in a RAID) > will not have a size shown ('-' is shown instead). > > Version 0.25 beta 1 is available at: > http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi.html > More information can be found on that page including examples > and a Download section for the tarball: > http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi-0.25b1.tgz > There are no debian or redhat packages built for this beta. > > Version 0.25 2011/03/04 [svn: r91] > - add sas_port and fc_remote_ports transport information > - print enclosure_device entry > - add '--size' option to show size of disks > - add '--protmode' option to show protection information mode > > Version 0.24 2010/06/12 [svn: r83] > ..... Recent versions of lsscsi will fail to show block devices with recent kernels (e.g. lk 2.6.37 and lk 2.6.38) that have these .config settings: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y What will they dream up for _DEPRECATED_V3 ? Doug Gilbert