On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:19 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Certainly -- but don't we get sysfs access to debug this kind of > problem? > Or do people sometimes have this problem and can't find their root > device as a consequence? send me you dmesg output is a far easier thing to ask non-linux experts than send me the contents of the scsi_level sysfs parameter for the relevant scsi_device (primarily because it's usually hard to work out where in the tree this is). So, until we have some kind of sysfs dump command that comes with every distribution and we can tell someone to run and attach the output, I'd really prefer to keep useful diagnostic information in dmesg. James - : 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
