Re: [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: display correct proc_name in sysfs

[John Garry]

On 12/05/2020 10:35, Jason Yan wrote:
> å 2020/5/12 16:23, John Garry åé:
> > On 12/05/2020 07:33, Jason Yan wrote:
> > > The 'proc_name' entry in sysfs for hisi_sas is 'null' now becuase it is
> > > not initialized in scsi_host_template. It looks like:
> > >
> > > [root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/proc_name
> > > (null)
> >
> > hmmm.. it would be good to tell us what this buys us, apart from the 
> > proc_name file.
>
> When there is more than one storage cards(or controllers) in the system, 
> I'm tring to find out which host is belong to which card. And then I 
> found this in scsi_host in sysfs but the output is '(null)' which is odd.

"dmesg | grep host" would give this info, like:

root@(none)$ dmesg | grep host0
[    8.877245] scsi host0: hisi_sas_v2_hw

> > I mean, if we had the sht show_info method implemented, then it could 
> > be useful (which is even marked as obsolete now).
>
> I found this is interesting while in the sysfs filesystem we have a 
> procfs stuff in it.

It's only the name of the procfs entry, if it exists.

And, since .show_info is obsolete, I don't see why .proc_name is not 
also obsolete.

> I was planned to rename this entry to 'name' and use 
> the struct member 'name' directly in struct scsi_host_template. But this 
> may break userspace applications.

Thanks,
John