Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 04:00:13 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:42:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Hi Linus - A happy 2004 !
> Note that one reason I didn't much like the 64-bit versions is that not > only are they bigger, they also encourage insanity. Ie you'd find SCSI > people who want to try to encode device/controller/bus/target/lun info > into the device number.
Weak. "We don't want this power that has good uses because it also can be used stupidly." That is not Unix-style.
> We should resist any effort that makes the numbers "mean" something. They > are random cookies. Not "unique identifiers", and not "addresses".
Random cookies? I prefer "arbitrary" over "random". The value plays no role at all, but it must be unique, preferably stable across reboots.
Andries
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