On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:54:17 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > CC'ed Paul Nasrat who is the current yaboot maintainer > > (Paul, the problem is about a /proc/scsi change breaking ofpath. The > change will probably be reverted, but still, ofpath should be changed to > not rely on that crap anymore) > yup. James, I think the best (only) way in which we can communicate with all users of the kernel is via the kernel. So we add a once-per-boot printk on first access to /proc/scsi/scsi (it should include current->comm). That should get people migrating off /proc/scsi/scsi as quickly as we can reasonably expect. Then in a year or four we can perhaps remove it. - 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
