Re: inquiry in scsi_scan.c

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:42:46PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo writes:
> 
> > This looks related to something i also bumped into
> >
> > scsi scan: host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 identifier too long
> 
> Sounds familiar. Please try the below (on 2.5.54).
> 
> Andries
> 

Instead of truncating the id, we need a new scsi_uid field allocated
to whatever size required. And, a descriptive string put in the name,
rather than the id, such as:

    scsi disk
    scsi processor
    scsi tape 

Even if the id is truncated, that information has to be available.

-- Patrick Mansfield