From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265102AbUASOGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265113AbUASOGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:06:46 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55224 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265102AbUASOGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:06:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:04:39 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , Greg KH , jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Message-ID: <20040119140439.GC31400@suse.de> References: <200308311453.00122.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20030924211823.GA11234@kroah.com> <200401172334.13561.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040119130817.GA27953@suse.de> <20040119145917.A981@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040119145917.A981@pclin040.win.tue.nl> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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