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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:21:15 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:59:51AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> We're certainly not there yet, since we need to support legacy
> interfaces like /proc/scsi/scsi.  But eventually you'll probably see us
> using the sysfs name instead of the id (FC devices will probably stuff
> WWNs in here, other things may use numbers) and lun (not sure how we'll
> represent SCSI-3 LUN hierarchies yet).  Hopefully, it will be possible
> to make the mid layer entirely unaware of any id/lun distinction so it
> could be configured for a flatter host/device space instead.

ATA defines WWN too...  I'm curious what the format is?  uuid-ish?

	Jeff