-Version 0.3 of scsi_id is available at:
+Version 0.7 of scsi_id is available at:
-http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/scsi_id/scsi_id-0.3.tar.gz
+http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/scsi_id/scsi_id-0.7.tar.gz
-scsi_id is a program to generate a SCSI unique identifier for a given SCSI
+scsi_id is a program to generate a unique identifier for a given SCSI
device.
-It is primarily for use with udev callout config entries. It can also be
-used for automatic multi-path configuration or device mapper configuration.
+It is primarily for use with the udev program key, or hotplug scripts that
+want persistent naming of scsi devices. It could also be used for
+automatic multi-path configuration or device mapper configuration.
-Version 0.3 requires:
+Requires:
- Linux kernel 2.6
- libsysfs 0.4.0
-Major changes since the last release:
+Changes since the last release:
+
+ - Fix a bug introduced in version 0.6 so that buffer alignement
+ works on 64 bit systems. Without this fix, it crashes on 64 bit
+ systems.
- - Changes to work with libsysfs 0.4.0
-
-All changes:
-
- - fix "prefix" usage for path to scsi_id.config
-
- - install the sample scsi_id.config file.
-
- - Use DESTDIR in all install/uninstall rules, per problem reported
- by Svetoslav Slavtchev.
-
- - Fix to work with current sysfs 0.4, based on patch from Dan
- Stekloff, but uses sysfs_read_attribute_value instead of
- sysfs_get_value_from_attributes.
-
- - SYSFS_BUS_DIR was replaced with SYSFS_BUS_NAME.
-
- - Must now use sysfs_open_class_device_path instead of the
- previous sysfs_open_class_device.
-
- - patch from Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> remove DEBUG and
- add --fno-builtin
+ - Add $(QUIET) to sync up with the udev Makefile