Re: lsscsi-0.17 released

[Douglas Gilbert]

Greg KH wrote:
>>/sys/class/scsi_device/<hcil>/device/block symlink
>>changed to ".../block:sd<x>" 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 "<hcil>" 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
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