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author | James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> | 2011-02-08 16:35:35 +0000 |
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committer | James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> | 2011-02-08 16:35:35 +0000 |
commit | 31960417a919c6d883547e1f6c73bd90f0d2ef03 (patch) | |
tree | 401fe402c0823917af6b880c7f2121021788754f /tools/python | |
parent | 090b27a6fad8561bb18a4b25dfd2a945bc361121 (diff) | |
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xend: canonicalise symlinks found in /dev for vbds (helps vscsi)
By default, vscsi expects to be passed the final device name (eg
/dev/st3) instead of one of the various udev symlinks (eg
/dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:01:08.0-scsi-0:0:2:0-st). The following patch
resolves the path to the real path if the name starts with /dev/
Signed-off-by: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/python')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py b/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py index c8c2f36641..b73fc5834b 100644 --- a/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py +++ b/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ def vscsi_get_scsidevices(mask=""): def vscsi_get_hctl_and_devname_by(target, scsi_devices = None): + if target.startswith('/dev/'): + target = os.path.realpath(target) if scsi_devices is None: if len(target.split(':')) == 4: scsi_devices = _vscsi_get_scsidevices_by_lsscsi(target) |