Since we already have a huge long list of different ways to identify different
devices, I don't think coding any one or even a set of such methods into the
kernel would satisfy everyone.
What about a different approach:
We already (nearly) have the scsimon patches to do hot plug events on SCSI
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> Both usb-storage and iee1394-sbp2 know the GUID. It only needs to be
> communicated..
>
> The usb-storage GUID is just one random item of information.
> One might wish for much more.
>
> And: this information is already somewhere:
For example, on the 2.5 kern
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> >Life would be easier if the scsi subsystem would just report which SCSI
> >device (uniquely identified by the controller,bus,target,unit tuple) belongs
> >to which high-level device. The information is available in the kernel.
> >
> >Attached patc
>Life would be easier if the scsi subsystem would just report which SCSI
>device (uniquely identified by the controller,bus,target,unit tuple) belongs
>to which high-level device. The information is available in the kernel.
>
>Attached patch does this:
>garloff@pckurt:/raid
