On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:08:20 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:01, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> what's the intention of /dev/disk/by-id/? >>> >>> My firewire hard disk seems to have different names with different >>> kernels. >>> >>> With 2.6.26.3, it's name is >>> /dev/disk/by-id/ieee1394-0030e001e0006585:00043c:0000. >>> >>> With someting after 2.6.27-rc7, merged with Arjan's fastboot branch, >>> the disk has the same name. > > Then this is a regression of the fastboot patch or whatever. It has the same name with 2.6.26.3 and with 2.6.27-rc7-something with fastboot merged. So why would this be a regression? The different name (scsi-...) happended with a vanilla 2.6.27-rc7. Initially, my intention was to find a unique name for the hard disk, that stays even if the disk is changed from Firewire to USB. However, this doesn't seem to be possible with a default udev. Regards, Tino -- 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
