On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:31 +0200, Gabriel C wrote: > No is not an SATA controller. > > sda and sdb are SCSI disks connected to an Adaptec AIC-7892P U160/m > controller using the aic7xxx driver. OK, this definitely works for me, that's what my root disk is on. I think this isn't a kernel problem ... I think it's a udev name clash problem. Try the attached patch, which corrects the names: > sdc is an ATA-7 disk connected to an IDE controller ( 82801BA IDE U100 > ) using libata and the ata_piix driver. James --- Index: BUILD-2.6/block/Kconfig =================================================================== --- BUILD-2.6.orig/block/Kconfig 2007-07-18 11:34:20.000000000 -0500 +++ BUILD-2.6/block/Kconfig 2007-07-18 11:36:24.000000000 -0500 @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ endif # BLOCK config BLK_DEV_BSG bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on (SCSI=y) && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on EXPERIMENTAL ---help--- Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support for any block device. Index: BUILD-2.6/block/bsg.c =================================================================== --- BUILD-2.6.orig/block/bsg.c 2007-07-18 11:34:20.000000000 -0500 +++ BUILD-2.6/block/bsg.c 2007-07-18 11:36:24.000000000 -0500 @@ -1009,29 +1009,6 @@ err: } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bsg_register_queue); -static int bsg_add(struct class_device *cl_dev, struct class_interface *cl_intf) -{ - int ret; - struct scsi_device *sdp = to_scsi_device(cl_dev->dev); - struct request_queue *rq = sdp->request_queue; - - if (rq->kobj.parent) - ret = bsg_register_queue(rq, kobject_name(rq->kobj.parent)); - else - ret = bsg_register_queue(rq, kobject_name(&sdp->sdev_gendev.kobj)); - return ret; -} - -static void bsg_remove(struct class_device *cl_dev, struct class_interface *cl_intf) -{ - bsg_unregister_queue(to_scsi_device(cl_dev->dev)->request_queue); -} - -static struct class_interface bsg_intf = { - .add = bsg_add, - .remove = bsg_remove, -}; - static struct cdev bsg_cdev = { .kobj = {.name = "bsg", }, .owner = THIS_MODULE, @@ -1069,16 +1046,9 @@ static int __init bsg_init(void) if (ret) goto unregister_chrdev; - ret = scsi_register_interface(&bsg_intf); - if (ret) - goto remove_cdev; - printk(KERN_INFO BSG_DESCRIPTION " version " BSG_VERSION " loaded (major %d)\n", bsg_major); return 0; -remove_cdev: - printk(KERN_ERR "bsg: failed register scsi interface %d\n", ret); - cdev_del(&bsg_cdev); unregister_chrdev: unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(bsg_major, 0), BSG_MAX_DEVS); destroy_bsg_class: Index: BUILD-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c =================================================================== --- BUILD-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c 2007-07-18 11:36:02.000000000 -0500 +++ BUILD-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c 2007-07-19 10:10:50.000000000 -0500 @@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ static int attr_add(struct device *dev, int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_device *sdev) { int error, i; + struct request_queue *rq = sdev->request_queue; if ((error = scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_RUNNING)) != 0) return error; @@ -734,6 +735,17 @@ int scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(struct scsi_devi /* take a reference for the sdev_classdev; this is * released by the sdev_class .release */ get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev); + + error = bsg_register_queue(rq, sdev->sdev_gendev.bus_id); + + if (error) + sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sdev, + "Failed to register bsg queue, errno=%d\n", error); + + /* we're treating error on bsg register as non-fatal, so pretend + * nothing went wrong */ + error = 0; + if (sdev->host->hostt->sdev_attrs) { for (i = 0; sdev->host->hostt->sdev_attrs[i]; i++) { error = attr_add(&sdev->sdev_gendev, @@ -780,6 +792,7 @@ void __scsi_remove_device(struct scsi_de if (scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_CANCEL) != 0) return; + bsg_unregister_queue(sdev->request_queue); class_device_unregister(&sdev->sdev_classdev); transport_remove_device(dev); device_del(dev); - 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