Re: [PATCH] libata transport attributes

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Justin Cormack wrote:
> Here is a rough patch to add libata transport attributes, along the
> lines of fibre channel and parallel scsi. I wrote it as it seemed to be
> the cleanest way of extracting ata-specific information (currently drive
> model, serial number and firmware revision) from sysfs (in
> /sys/class/libata_transport/). There are a few issues, in particular:
> 
> 1. it wont compile modular, as libata depends on scsi_transport_libata
> and vice-versa at the moment. I am not sure how you are supposed to get
> around this (and there arent any significant number of drivers in tree
> using the transport modules yet).
> 
> 2. It would be nice if the device directory in sysfs had a symlink to
> the transport attributes directory, not just the other way round.
> 
> 3. I couldnt work out what scsi_transport_template.size was the size of,
> as I couldnt see where it was used anywhere...
> 
> patch against 2.6.5-rc3-libata1 but probably applies against most recent
> kernels.


Did you see the comments I posted WRT mort's patch?

Since libata is leaving SCSI in 2.7, I would rather not add superfluous 
stuff like this at all.

Further, you can already retrieve the information you export with _zero_ 
new code.

	Jeff