Re: dev_printk output

[James Bottomley]

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


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