On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:34:26AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > Matthias Andree wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > >>Matthias Andree wrote: > > >>>Does this work around new incompatibilities in the kernel > > >>>or does this fix lsscsi bugs? > > >> > > >>The former. In lk 2.6.16-rc1 the > > >>/sys/class/scsi_device/<hcil>/device/block symlink > > >>changed to ".../block:sd<x>" breaking lsscsi 0.16 (and > > >>earlier) and sg_map26 (in sg3_utils). > > > > > > Heck, what was the reason for breaking userspace again? > > > > Maybe the person responsible can answer. I'm only reacting > > to a change that broke two of my utilities. > > Probably better to cc the person responsible if you want an answer. It was changed as there would be more than one "block" symlink in a device's directory if more than one block device was attached to a single struct device. For example, ub and multi-lun devices (there were other reports of this happening for scsi devices too at the time from what I remember.) So, in that case, your tool would have been broken anyway, so this fix was required to make it correct :) The fix was to make block devices work the same way as all other class devices, which had this fix a while ago. thanks, greg k-h - : 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
