Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:28:06 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <200007251927.NAA48018@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:13:34 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007251212470.56819-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> >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. But not all devices are SCSI and not all SCSI devices have WWNs, so calling the FreeBSD representation of a virtual device identifier a WWN will lead to confusion when the identifier doesn't come from a WWN. The CAM3 spec talks a bit about virtual device identifiers and leaves it up to the implementer to decide what data is appropriate to make it unique. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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