Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:58:34 +0100 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Finalize new device naming convention ? |
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Guillaume Boissiere (boissiere@mediaone.net) mentions on http://people.ne.mediaone.net/boissiere/Status-18-Jan-2002.html :
* Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
Is this about user space visible device names , like the stuff in /dev/ ?
I have some strong ( negative ) feeling about the current ( pre 2.5.x ) state of that. Where is/was/will be this discussed.
The gist of my problem is that the entries in /dev/ doesn't always refer to the same device as 5 minutes before. Even without a reboot in between.
Examples :
name | now | some minutes later ------------------------------------------------- sdb | a SCSI disk | some other SCSI disk hda6 | my root FS | my swap partition dsp1 | my main speakers | my rear speaker eth0 | my LAN connection | my ISP connection
There must be some lasting ID that can be used to refer to devices, something that is not changed by some semi-related events.
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