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From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>, "Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	"Ian Campbell" <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	"Chunyan Liu" <cyliu@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	"Jim Fehlig" <jfehlig@suse.com>,
	"Simon Cao" <caobosimon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API [and 1 more messages]
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:34:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFLBxZZ=6uQ_SGeJ1bGySv87MJGbj1qzb+++DDYGmga8iv7W8w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21888.18408.443895.592922@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API [and 1 more messages]"):
>> > Yes.  The whole point of paths like this is that they are stable if
>> > the physical topology doesn't change.  So on my netbook
>> >
>> >   /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
>> >
>> > always refers to the 1st MBR partition on logical device 0 on the USB
>> > storage device plugged into the USB port physically on the front left
>> > of the computer.
>>
>> That would be great if it were true, but I'm not convinced that the
>> above path doesn't include a globally-enumerated bus number, which might
>> change across reboots if it's enumerated in a different order.
>>
>> It may be that the format above is *not* based on the sysfs path of the
>> device; that the '0' immediately after the USB means "the first (and
>> perhaps only) controller at this PCI address".  In which case, yes,
>> having a string like this might be a unique identifier for a particular
>> port that would be stable across reboots.  That needs some investigation.
>
> That does seem to be the case:

What seems to be the case -- that it contains the global bus, or not?

> Looking at the output of udevadm monitor --property for sdc1 (on
> another plug):
>
> DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host22/target22:0:0/22:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1
> ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
> ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_1d_7-usb-0_1_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0
>
> I don't know where that ID_PATH comes from.

It looks like that's constructed in udev:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-path_id.c

See handle_usb() (line 542) in particular.

If I'm reading it right, what it basically does it take the
[bus]-[port], and replace it with usb-0:[port].  (IOW, the '0' is
hard-coded.)

Also, if I'm reading it right, this won't work properly for Juergen's
system that has two USB devices at the same pci address -- they'll
both end up resolving to [pciaddr]-usb-0:[whatever].

Juergen -- can you give this a try?  Run "udevadm info" on the two USB
busses that share the same PCI slot, and see if the ID_PATH is the
same for both?

 -George

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-16 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10  3:20 [PATCH V4 0/7] xen pvusb toolstack work Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 1/7] libxl: export some functions for pvusb use Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 16:08   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-11 16:28     ` Wei Liu
2015-06-12 15:14       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 2/7] libxl_read_file_contents: add new entry to read sysfs file Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 16:16   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-12  7:00     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12 15:11       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 15:00   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-11 16:07     ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-11 16:42   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-12  7:39     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12  8:06       ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12 11:22       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-15 14:17   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-15 14:25     ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-15 14:34       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-15 18:26         ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 10:30           ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 10:51             ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:11               ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:19                 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:23                   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:44                     ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-17 11:24                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 11:50                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18 12:08                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18 13:03                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-22 13:29                           ` Proposed plan for libxl USB interface (was Re: [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API) George Dunlap
2015-06-22 14:14                             ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-22 14:22                             ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-23  2:42                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23  2:43                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23  2:44                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-16 10:41     ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 10:56       ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-16 11:03         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:10         ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 11:25           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:45             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 12:02               ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 13:19                 ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:32                   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:37                   ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 14:41                     ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 15:58                       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2015-06-16 15:59                       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 16:34                         ` George Dunlap [this message]
2015-06-17  3:59                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-17 10:27                             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18  6:24                               ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-16 11:45             ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 13:06               ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:09                 ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:23                   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:29                     ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:49                       ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 14:06                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 14:20                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 14:37                             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-17 11:34                             ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-17 11:40                               ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-18  6:20                               ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-18  7:02                                 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-18  8:50                                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 13:02                                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 15:38             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:01       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:12         ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 11:21           ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 16:32             ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 16:39               ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 16:51                 ` Ross Philipson
2015-06-17  4:03                   ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-17 13:48                     ` Ross Philipson
2015-06-15 17:47   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-23 10:18     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23 11:29       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-24  2:26         ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 4/7] libxl: add libxl_device_usb_assignable_list API Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 5/7] xl: add pvusb commands Chunyan Liu
2015-06-12  7:37   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-12  8:03     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12  8:22       ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 6/7] xl: add usb-assignable-list command Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 7/7] domcreate: support pvusb in configuration file Chunyan Liu

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