Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI update for 2.6.3

Greg KH
2004-02-24T21:43:52Z

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:15:12AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:16:29AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> >
> > Can you print out the sysfs tree this patch creates?
> >
> > What's that "tape" symlink for? Does it go from the scsi device in
> > /sys/devices/... to the class device? Or the other way around?
> >
> > Other than that question, the patch looks sane to me.
>
> Current 2.6 kernel default names are of the form: st[0-9]m[0-3][n]
>
> Current /dev naming is of the form: [n]st[0-9][alm]
>
> Should the st kernel names be changed to map to current /dev names?

Yes, to make it easier for everyone, they should. Any reason why the
kernel names are currently different from what we have in
Documentation/devices.txt? I really feel we should follow the standard
here :)

thanks,

greg k-h