On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:15:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > There are two things that really count:
> > 1) the identifier (preferably a world wide unique name)
> > of the logical unit that is being addressed
> > 2) a topological description of how that logical unit
> > is connected
>
> And "SCSI ID" doesn't describe either.
>
> > Linux's <hctl> may be a ham fisted way of describing
> > a path through a topology, but it easily beats /dev/sdabc
> > and /dev/sg4711 .
>
> Sure, you can easily beat it by selecting what you compare it against.
>
> But face it, /dev/sdabc or /dev/sg4711 simply isn't what you should
> compare against. What you should compare against is
>
> /dev/cdrom
> /sys/bus/ide/devices/0.0/block:hda/dev
> /dev/uuid/3d9e6e8dfaa3d116
> ..
>
> and a million OTHER ways to specify which device you're interested in.
>
> The fact is, they can potentially all do the SCSI command set. And a "SCSI
> ID" makes absolutely zero sense for them (those three devices may be the
> same device, they may not be, they might be on another machine, who
> knows..)
If this ioctl is generally supported, then you'll be able to find out if
they're all the same ;-)
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