Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <> | Subject | Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited |
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Hello Mike,
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Michael Neuffer wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Harald Milz wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:54:00 +0200 > > From: Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de> > > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > > Subject: Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited > > > > Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net) wrote: > > > > > > Now that I think about it though, I toss in a vote for: > > > s<?><id><lun> > > > on naming though (eg tape on ID 4 lun 0 == st40 or the like) > > > > Err - this limits you to 9 LUNs per SCSI ID. Please don't do it... SSA will > > allow many, many disks per (virtual mapped) SCSI ID and would definitely > > not profit from it! > > > > It's easier to unambiguously parse something like > > s<host>i<target id>l<lun> > > This would be incomplete, since a controller can have more then one bus, > it would have to be: > > s<host>c<channel>i<target id>l<lun>
OK, I can get my teeth into the above scheme. Suggestion instead of 's' use 'h' for host, this will allow the scheme to be utilized for -all- disk types rather that just scsi.
One more suggestion, Have an option to allow for somesort of verbosity , Please. like ... (Yes I know links could be used)
'type'-host#<host>,channel#<channel>,id#<target id>,lun#<lun>
scsi-host#1,channel#2,id#3,lun#4 ide-host#1,channel#2,id#3,lun#4 < never know may happen ;-) mscp-host#1,channel#2,id#3,lun#4 < Will happen ;-) '...'-host#1,channel#2,id#3,lun#4
You get the picture.
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