From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422649AbWBVSAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:00:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422651AbWBVSAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:00:34 -0500 Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188]:39854 "EHLO tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422647AbWBVSAd (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:00:33 -0500 Message-ID: <43FCA686.5020508@torque.net> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:59:34 -0500 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dougg@torque.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lsscsi-0.17 released X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: >>/sys/class/scsi_device//device/block symlink >>changed to ".../block:sd" breaking lsscsi 0.16 (and >>earlier) and sg_map26 (in sg3_utils). > It was changed as there would be more than one "block" symlink in a > device's directory if more than one block device was attached to a > single struct device. For example, ub and multi-lun devices (there were > other reports of this happening for scsi devices too at the time from > what I remember.) A "scsi_device" is a logical unit, hence the "l" at the end of the "" acronym in the above path. So it wasn't broken. However there is some fuzziness in this area, for example the term "scsi_device". Doug Gilbert