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Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux



On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:53 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : rescan-scsi-bus
>   Version         : 1.48
>   Upstream Author : Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
> * URL             : http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: Bash
>   Description     : tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux
> 
> Linux allows you to add and remove SCSI devices without rebooting by
> using the echo "scsi add-single-device H C I L" > /proc/scsi/scsi
> command (H = host, C = channel, I = SCSI ID, L = SCSI LUN). The
> remove-single-device command works similarily.
> ..
> This tool provides an easy interface to interact with the SCSI subsystem
> in the linux kernel to perform SCSI Hotplugging

DO NOT USE /proc/scsi/scsi.  It is deprecated.  We actually removed it
in squeeze, though it will be restored because some hardware vendors
ship crap scripts that use it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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