Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: /proc/scsi/map | Date | Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:54:42 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2002 19:25 schrieb James Bottomley: > Since we already have a huge long list of different ways to identify > different devices, I don't think coding any one or even a set of such > methods into the kernel would satisfy everyone. > > What about a different approach: > > We already (nearly) have the scsimon patches to do hot plug events on > SCSI devices incorporated. Any identification could be done from the > scsi device hotplug script (i.e. if you see it's USB, get the GID, if > it's enterprise storage get the WWN, try the filesystem UUID etc). Then > all the hotplug script does is plug this device into some type of volume > idenfication scheme like /dev/volume/<name>.
How would you find out what a device is ? If the kernel has to supply the information anyway, you could just as well pass all information to the script or devfs.
Regards Oliver
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