Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:26:39 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219056 - in head/sys: cam/ata cam/scsi dev/ata geom Message-ID: <4D6BB09F.1050400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201102280759.59927.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201102261458.p1QEws75077588@svn.freebsd.org> <201102280759.59927.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 02/28/11 06:59, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:58:54 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> Author: nwhitehorn >> Date: Sat Feb 26 14:58:54 2011 >> New Revision: 219056 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219056 >> >> Log: >> Add the disk ident and a human-meaningful description (here, the disk model >> string) to the geom_disk config XML so that they are easily accessible from >> userland. >> >> MFC after: 1 week > Not sure if you want to do this for mfi_disk.c, etc.? Logical disks in > mfi(4) have an optional volume name for example (the BIOS typically fills it > in with "RAID 5" or some such when you create a volume in the BIOS) that > might be worth exporting as the description for mfidX devices. > > Not sure about other disk devices such as twed. I'm not as familiar with all the various RAID modules. I've started making patches to set d_descr to things like "Adaptec RAID Volume" for now, but would be interested to know if there is something better in individual cases. -Nathan
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