From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 25 12:13:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C4037BBF2 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA30479; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:13:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:13:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? In-Reply-To: <200007251805.MAA46146@pluto.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But there is a fully qualified 128 bit WWN. It's type 6, and it's in page 0x83 of VPD info for Inquiry in SPC2. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >So, I think it would be nice if 128 bit WWN could also be handled. > > Well, don't call it a WWN. Call it, perhaps, a "devid". Make the > specification of what exactly a "devid" is flexible so it can be > composed for non-SCSI devices, and you are on the right track. > 128bits may be too small for some types of devices or if you want to > add other information besides the WWN to the "devid". > > "devids" should not be exported through libcam, but through a more > generic interface. > > -- > Justin > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message