Re: [PATCH] Move SG_GET_SCSI_ID from sg to scsi

[Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> > Having a SCSI ID is a generic SCSI property
> 
> No it's not.

With respect to sg vs. scsi, it is.

> Havign a SCSI ID is a f*cking idiotic thing to do.
> 
> Only idiots like Joerg Schilling thinks that any such thing even _exists_. 
> It does not, never has, and never will.

For the host ID ACK, but some transports do support channel/ID/LUN. In
/these/ cases having them exported is a sane thing to do. I don't even try
to argue if it's better to use sysfs or ioctl.

> The way you reach a SCSI device is through the device filename, and trying 
> to use controller/channel/id/lun naming IS INSANE!

ACK, and having an address space of 340 * 10^36 will make it perfectly
clear. One day a subsystem might hand out ID and LUN cookies instead of
counters, and a certain table of sg numbers will stop fitting in memory.
I'm just handing out the bigger gun with the automatic foot-finder.-)

</chasing the pink herring>

> Stop it now. We should kill that ioctl, not try to make it look like it is 
> sensible. It's not a sensible way to look up SCSI devices, and the fact 
> that some SCSI people think it is is doesn't make it so.

Schedule for removal?

As I understand, having a /dev/sd0815 corresponding to a /dev/sg4711 is
the root of all evil and idiotic things, and moving all sg functions into
the apropiate place is the sane thing to do.

This patch is a part of the process, and as soon as all sg functions are
available using /dev/s[dtr]*, the corresponding sg devices should be
deprecated and removed.

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