Re: generating a Linux WWN?

[Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>]

--- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Luben Tuikov wrote:
> > --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >> Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >>> --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >>>> Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >>>>> This still does not justify "let's generate it in the kernel".
> >>>> Once an admin specifies to use an alternate WWN provision, the method 
> >>>> used to obtain that WWN is an implementation detail and irrelevant.
> >>> But you're arguing that the kernel should generate it to "help out"
> >>> SAS drivers with HW that has had it's MS/NVRAM erased or corrupted.
> >>>
> >>> The kernel has no business generating SAS WWN.
> >> Perhaps you missed the English text "once an admin specifies" in the 
> >> quoted email.
> > 
> > Was your "once an admin specifies" reply to my email
> > supposed to be "Oh, I see, generating a SAS WWN in the kernel
> > is not that good an idea after all.  I'll implement it
> > as a kernel/module option." ?
> 
> The admin will have the option to auto-generate a WWN, should they so 
> desire.

What does that mean?  "auto-generate"?  By whom?
What if they don't "auto-generate" (whatever that means)?