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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:04:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119140439.GC31400@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119145917.A981@pclin040.win.tue.nl>

 On Mon, Jan 19, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > ... Working with the 'physical
> > location' of removeable devices will probably fail. The usb-storage
> > devices here have a serial field, I really hope it is unique, use it.
> 
> Too optimistic.
> I have several devices with serial number 0.

Nice... Is 'serial' empty, or does it just have '0' in it? And would it
also fail to use vendor/device id for these beasts?

-- 
USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!

sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG

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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:04:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119140439.GC31400@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119145917.A981@pclin040.win.tue.nl>

 On Mon, Jan 19, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > ... Working with the 'physical
> > location' of removeable devices will probably fail. The usb-storage
> > devices here have a serial field, I really hope it is unique, use it.
> 
> Too optimistic.
> I have several devices with serial number 0.

Nice... Is 'serial' empty, or does it just have '0' in it? And would it
also fail to use vendor/device id for these beasts?

-- 
USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!

sUse lINUX ag, n√úRNBERG


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-18  6:21 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-08-18 20:42 ` your mail Greg KH
2003-08-31 10:54   ` Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-09-24 21:18     ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 20:34       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-17 20:34         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-17 21:34         ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 21:34           ` Greg KH
2004-01-18  1:03           ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-18 14:05           ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-19 19:51           ` Greg KH
2004-01-19 13:08         ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 13:08           ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 13:59           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-19 13:59             ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-19 14:04             ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-01-19 14:04               ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-14 11:53           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-14 11:53             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-14 19:25             ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-14 19:25               ` Horst von Brand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-19 17:56 David Brownell
2003-07-26 16:36 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-26 16:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-26 16:50 ` Greg KH
2003-07-28 16:44   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-28 17:03     ` Greg KH
2003-08-17 16:41       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-08-17 18:28         ` Greg KH
2003-08-18  2:04           ` jw schultz
2003-08-18 20:47             ` Greg KH
2003-07-26 16:54 ` OSDL
2003-07-26 16:59 ` J.C. Wren
2003-07-26 17:07   ` Greg KH
2003-07-26 22:51   ` Dax Kelson

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