On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 09:09:45PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > I approve of these changes in general, but there should be one more > line of information. In the "after" example, there's nothing to relate > the USB device mentioned in the first two lines with the SCSI device > mentioned in the remaining six. I'd like to see one line in between > from usb-storage, to indicate which USB interface is being registered > as which SCSI host. > > We don't print anything quite like that right now, so this would have > to be something new. The closest we come is the "scsi4 : SCSI > emulation for USB Mass Storage devices" line, and it doesn't mention > the USB interface. I think you're right. Here's my current dmesg: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 scsi4 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0 scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Flash Disk 5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 2009088 512-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/981 MiB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Removable disk, Write Protect is off sdb: unknown partition table That actually makes the patchset slightly simpler; before: drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 3 + drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 13 ++++-- include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 3 + 5 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) after: drivers/scsi/sd.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ drivers/usb/core/generic.c | 2 - drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 3 + drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 15 +++++-- drivers/usb/storage/usb.h | 1 5 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) Patches to follow. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html