On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM, John Huttley <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM, John Huttley <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi again, >>> My foray into tape rules has come to an abrupt halt. >>> I'm sure scsi_id is more confused that I am. >>> >>> I'm running it against a scsi attached HP Ultrium-1 drive >>> >>> gatekeeper by-id # scsi_id --whitelisted --export -d /dev/st2 >>> ID_VENDOR=HP >>> ID_MODEL=C7438A >>> ID_REVISION=ZU5A >>> ID_SERIAL=1HP_C7438A_HU107108XD >>> ID_SERIAL_SHORT=HP_C7438A_HU107108XD >>> ID_TYPE=tape >>> > >>> scsi_id is really mangling that serial number!! (short and long) >> >> It's that way since forever. It ensures unique serial numbers, which >> is not given across vendors. > > > Can we not do that please? The short serial number should at least be the > 'serial number' as reported by the drive. > > Uniqueness is not required, after all we are using ID_VENDOR and ID_MODEL to > generate an informative and unique identifier. I guess we can change that, ID_SERIAL_SHORT was only added for ATA compat links, which we do directly by using pass-through and the ata_id program these days. If you like, send a patch. :) Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
