sg3 utilities 1.25 [PSARC/2008/683]
James Carlson
james.d.carlson at sun.com
Fri Nov 14 05:45:26 PST 2008
Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:41:21PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > It seems *awfully* strange to me that we feel obliged to integrate a set
> > of command line utilities which are designed to provide raw access to a
> > hardware bus to the command line.
>
> I don't think that's trange at all. It's a useful debug aid at the very
> least, and it may well be a useful integrator's tool for gluing things
> together as well.
It is strange when I'd expect to do this sort of hackery via "mdb
-kw", and not by way of some odd /usr/sbin utility. What's next?
/usr/sbin/peek and /usr/sbin/poke?
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