On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 18:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bisection shows that this brokenness is introduced by > git-scsi-misc.patch. > > Someone has gone in and made some ill-advised "improvements" to > /proc/scsi/scsi. The switch from "Direct-Access" to "Direct access" > broke > ofpath. I fixed that (in ofpath) but it remains broken for other > reasons. > > James, this is a non-compatible change to the kernel->userspace > interface. Please > drop it like a hot potato. Well ... OK, we shouldn't break things gratuitously. However, the /proc/scsi interface is deprecated and has been for a while now. Secondly, as Matthew pointed out, the SCSI standards actually keep changing their minds about the names of these things ... But, thirdly, in order to get around the issue, we provided the /sys/class/scsi_disk/<x:y:z:i>/device/type interface which supplies the numeric field value precisely so people shouldn't parse the translated strings. So, it sounds like yaboot is also in need of modification. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
