Re: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map

["Martin Schwenke" <martin@meltin.net>]

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

    Linus> Can't you add the SCSI devices to the device tree, and be
    Linus> done with it? 

Do you mean the /devices tree or the Open Firmware (OF) device-tree
(as in IEEE Std 1275).  I suspect that you mean the former, but...

    Linus> [...]

    Linus> All fixed at least to _some_ degree by giving the most
    Linus> complete address we can, ie something like

    Linus> 	/devices/root/pci0/00:02.0/02:1f.0/03:07.0

That looks similar, but not identical to an Open Firmware node for a
SCSI device:

  device-tree/pci@3fff5e09000/pci@b,6/scsi@1,1/sd/...

Why not use the structure of, and a subset of the capabilities of, an
OF device-tree for building /devices?  It's a little more verbose, but
it's a standard and it fits the current problem pretty well.

I've been working on some hardware inventory stuff at IBM that uses an
augmented OF device-tree (as a directory tree in userspace) to keep
track of useful stuff...

peace & happiness,
martin