Re: 2.3 wish. Scsi ID's

Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Fri, 28 May 1999 23:31:07 +0100 (IST)


On Wed, 26 May 1999, Wakko Warner wrote:

I feel it would be nice to do this, but I don't know how it would effect the
kernel.. Add in support to access a scsi disk by bus/id/lun/partition.

Richard Gooch has a patch that does this, devfs:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html

it provides a completely virtual /dev (virtual the way /proc is).
very cool.

it'd be really nice if this could be included into linux. would make
adding other patches less troublesome.

regards,

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