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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:59:17 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
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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.