Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs

2014-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:04 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > EVPD page 0x83 is used to uniquely identify the device. > So instead of having each and every program issue a separate > SG_IO call to retrieve this information it does make far more > sense to display it in sysfs. Can someone please tell

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs

2014-02-07 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 02/06/2014 08:14 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > On 14-02-06 08:04 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> EVPD page 0x83 is used to uniquely identify the device. >> So instead of having each and every program issue a separate >> SG_IO call to retrieve this information it does make far more >> sense to displ

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs

2014-02-06 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 14-02-06 08:04 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: EVPD page 0x83 is used to uniquely identify the device. So instead of having each and every program issue a separate SG_IO call to retrieve this information it does make far more sense to display it in sysfs. Cc: Jeremy Linton Cc: Doug Gilbert See

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs

2014-02-06 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 02/06/2014 02:04 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > EVPD page 0x83 is used to uniquely identify the device. > So instead of having each and every program issue a separate > SG_IO call to retrieve this information it does make far more > sense to display it in sysfs. > > Cc: Jeremy Linton > Cc: Doug