KernelTrap: SCSI ID’s

“An interesting thread on the lkml began with a patch to try and
move an IOCTL call used to obtain the SCSI ID of a SCSI device from
the block layer into the SCSI subsystem. Linux creator Linus
Torvalds was quite vehement in his responses, explaining that there
is no such thing as a SCSI ID, ;stop it now. We should kill that
ioctl, not try to make it look like it is sensible. It’s not a
sensible way to look up SCSI devices, and the fact that some SCSI
people think it is is doesn’t make it so.’ The heated debate has
come up many times on the kernel mailing list, with arguments on
both sides of the issue…”

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