On 07/02/2008 10:56:31 AM, Greg KH wrote:
Because UUIDs are not guaranteed to be unique, except by bus type.
That seems a shame, given that they are named Universally Unique IDentifiers and are all supposed to reside in a single namespace. At least that's what I've thought UUIDs are. Oh well. Karl <kop@xxxxxxxx> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- 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