On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> [2008.07.02.1619 +0200]: > > What kind of id's do you have in mind, which would be the same across > > buses? > > I don't. I am trying to understand why the bus type is an integral > part of the /dev/disk/by-id/* links. Because UUIDs are not guaranteed to be unique, except by bus type. So if you place them all in the same namespace, you need to add the bus type to ensure there are no collisions. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
