Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:15:20 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:04:08PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Why is it a *kernel* task to invent SCSI identifier for a non-SCSI > > transport that does not have such identifiers, in addition to the device > > name? libscg is already doing it for /dev/hd* and /dev/pg*. > > How about USB or Firewire or SATA? Do they have ID or LUN? > > Nothing but SPI (parallel scsi) has a target id. Everything that broadly > falls under SAM has luns. Because SPI is dying transport the scsi > midlayer will get rid of having a mandatory target id mid-term. Relying > on the target id to have any useful meaning is dangerous, it doesn't > have a really useful meaning on anything but SPI.
And now please tell me how you believe this will be inplemented.....
Every kernel implementation I am aware of uses device instance numbers and BTW: I am open for any non-dogmatic discussion.
Jörg
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