Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI update for 2.6.3

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:15:12AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:16:29AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can you print out the sysfs tree this patch creates?
> > 
> > What's that "tape" symlink for?  Does it go from the scsi device in
> > /sys/devices/... to the class device?  Or the other way around?
> > 
> > Other than that question, the patch looks sane to me.
> 
> Current 2.6 kernel default names are of the form: st[0-9]m[0-3][n]
> 
> Current /dev naming is of the form: [n]st[0-9][alm]
> 
> Should the st kernel names be changed to map to current /dev names?

Yes, to make it easier for everyone, they should.  Any reason why the
kernel names are currently different from what we have in
Documentation/devices.txt?  I really feel we should follow the standard
here :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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