From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964857AbWETNrK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 09:47:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964856AbWETNrJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 09:47:09 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:52631 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964854AbWETNrI (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 09:47:08 -0400 Subject: Re: dev_printk output From: James Bottomley To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Greg KH , Patrick Mansfield , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060520045544.GD2826@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060511150015.GJ12272@parisc-linux.org> <20060512170854.GA11215@us.ibm.com> <20060513050059.GR12272@parisc-linux.org> <20060518183652.GM1604@parisc-linux.org> <20060518200957.GA29200@us.ibm.com> <20060519201142.GB2826@parisc-linux.org> <20060519202847.GB8865@kroah.com> <20060520045544.GD2826@parisc-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:46:57 -0500 Message-Id: <1148132817.3529.1.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 22:55 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Then we still get the inconsistency of device names changing as > drivers > are loaded. I think we should declare it a bug for devices to not be > on a bus. The only example I have of devices not-on-a-bus are scsi > targets. I would propose introducing a new scsi_target bus for them, > then removing the 'target' from the start of the bus_id. Adding them > to > the scsi bus looks like it'd be a lot of work. It's not just the target. All the intermediate devices in transport classes don't have busses either. The only reason scsi_device has a bus is so we can use the driver model to bind the ULDs. James