Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932221AbWIKSIY (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932216AbWIKSIY (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:08:24 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:45136 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932221AbWIKSIX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:08:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4505A612.8070603@tls.msk.ru> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:08:18 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-kernel Subject: Vendor field with USB, [SP]ATA etc-attached disks X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=4F9CF57E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 913 Lines: 27 With current SATA, PATA and at least some USB disks, Linux reports Vendor: $subsystem, instead of the actual vendor of the drive, like this: scsi1 : ata_piix Vendor: ATA Model: ST3808110AS Rev: n/a Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 This should be Vendor: Seagate, not ATA (Note also the lack of "Revision" field). The same for PATA disk: scsi0 : pata_via Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120026A Rev: 3.76 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 The same is shown in /sys/block/$DEV/device/vendor. Can it be changed to show real vendor, instead of the subsystem name? Thanks. /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/