Re: [PATCH] scsi: Export SCSI Inquiry data to sysfs

[James Smart]

On 8/14/2015 2:32 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/13/2015 01:50 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > Export the RAW SCSI Inquiry to sysfs as binfile. This way the data can be
> > used by userlang without the need to have and ioctl or use the sg_inq tool.
> userland!

Just be careful. There are conditions where this could be stale 
data....   LUN reconfig on an array that hasn't been rescanned by the 
mid layer yet is such a case.

Any reason you didn't have the sysfs call initiate a lun scan or send an 
inquiry so it's always valid data ?

-- james s
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