On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:30 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> [2008.07.02.1806 +0200]: > > All are only unique per namespace/bus, and should better not be > > mixed. > > Well, but that's my point I suppose. Why do we have to treat the > same drive differently, whether it's on the ATA bus or the USB bus? > > My reason for bringing this up was that I was trying to boot off > a harddrive via USB and had to change all the links, rather than > just watching the system boot off the same disk it has always booted > from. So, what id's/symlinks is the same disk showing for ATA and USB in your case? Only advanced USB bridges read the number from the actual disk, I have a bunch of enclosures here, which show all different id's for the same disk inserted. Also usb-storage needs to encode the target and lun number in the id, for multi-slot devices, so I do not think that will work. 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
