Comment # 84 on bug 1048679 from Hannes Reinecke

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #81)
> (In reply to Hannes Reinecke from comment #78)
> > 
> > We already _do_ provide complete alternative functionality via the sg3_utils
> > rules, so we can well live without scsi_id here.
> > 
> 
> So why not submitting a patch to upstream that removes the SCSI rules from
> 60-persistent-storage.rules and explaining that sg3_utils has taken over ? 
> 
> BTW scsi_id is also used by cciss devices. Can sg3_utils take care of them ?
> 
Yes. scsi_id and sg3_utils both use the same ioctl, so there no difference to
the driver.

> Otherwise we would need to change the relevant rules to replace scsi_id with
> a tool provided by sg3_utils. That would make udev depend on sg3_utils but
> since the number of deps of the later is low that wouldn't be a problem I
> think.
> 
> Also are the rules/tools shipped by sg3_utils also deals with those compat
> symlinks ?
> 
>  
> https://github.com/openSUSE/systemd/commit/
> f2eb26c05621748795c69122530b8800d0507104
> 
It should be, but I'll take a look.