Hi,
I jsut released scsidev-2.25.
scsidev does provide names for your SCSI device nodes based on the
CBTU/HCIL tuple and optionally on meta information such as serial
numbers, wwids, or just the std. INQUIRY information. It also
handles permissions of those files by removing non-attached device
nodes, but backing their permissions up.
New in 2.25 (compared to 2.22):
* Major cleanup
* WWID support
* Sane handling of permissions by using .shadow. files
(instead of the nonsensical minor=255 stuff)
* now parses /proc files (partitions, ioports, ...) to collect
information
* Uses the /proc/scsi/scsi extensions if present: if they are, we can:
- Support many disks (more than 256)
- Provide reliable information [1]
- Work much faster
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/garloff/linux/scsidev/
[1] As discussed before, you can't get reliable mapping between sg and
and other high-level drivers. Unfortunately, you can't just open other
dev nodes to send down ioctls, as the open may block (think removable
media) or has side effects (think tapes).
Hopefully, driverfs will provide all the info needed one day.
For 2.4 we need one of the patches from my sd-many collection.
Regards,
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