Stefan Richter wrote:
James Bottomley wrote:
It's all very well to say this, but I think if you look at what udev
does, you'll find that it uses scsi_id to send a VPD inquiry to the
device so it can populate /dev/disk/by-id, so the point is already
conceded
PS: Alas we don't have a practicabl
--- On Thu, 2/7/08, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is all a tradeoff. If you want userspace *never* to
> issue raw SCSI
> commands like INQUIRY, we're going to have to provide
> the needed
> information from the kernel via sysfs ... including VPD
> strings. This
> is something
> James Bottomley wrote:
>> It's all very well to say this, but I think if you look at what udev
>> does, you'll find that it uses scsi_id to send a VPD inquiry to the
>> device so it can populate /dev/disk/by-id, so the point is already
>> conceded
PS: Alas we don't have a practicable way to kno
(adding Cc linux-hotplug)
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:08 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Mike Anderson wrote:
>> > A number of user apps like lvm scanning that execute media access commands
>> > already have filter capability to filter devices that one does not want to
>> > s
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:08 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Mike Anderson wrote:
> > A number of user apps like lvm scanning that execute media access commands
> > already have filter capability to filter devices that one does not want to
> > scan. Another class of device scanners just use inquiries
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