On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:49 +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 it's the USB-serial-number, the ATA-serial-string, the SCSI-INQUIRY-serial-string, the FireWire-gid-number, the dm-name-string, the md-name-string, the SD-flash-card serial, ..., and not a unique id on its own. All are only unique per namespace/bus, and should better not be mixed. The exception which would allow us moving the number around is ATA devices using SCSI, because ATA synthesizes all SCSI data, but I think we better just create two links in this case, instead of trying to move all different id's into one namespace. Thanks, Kay -- 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
