On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:50:19PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > So my question is why was "scsi_generic:sg0" form introduced, > especially the ":sg0" part? It may help visually but it > is a nuisance programmatically. It was for the benefit of serial devices (and others) which may have several classes. # ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:04.0 bus device local_cpus subsystem_device tty:ttyS1 class driver modalias subsystem_vendor tty:ttyS2 config irq resource tty:ttyS0 vendor Without the :ttyS*, we'd have three links all called 'tty'. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
