Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 10:14:37 -0400 |
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On May 30, 2005, at 08:26:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Toon van der Pas <toon@hout.vanvergehaald.nl> wrote: > > >>> look up the man page for udev(8), pay particular attention to the >>> part >>> that can tie devname into device serial number. >>> take note of the example shown under 'serial'. >>> >> >> These were my thoughts too. >> But I just checked the entries in my sysfs tree for my CDRW drive, >> and there is no serial number available... >> > > BTW: an implementation that uses something like Solaris does with > /etc/path_to_inst and puts USB serial numbers into the path_to_inst > kernel instance database could come very close to the desired result > and would give stable SCSI addresses too.
But why fix what isn't broken? I can tell all my other programs, from dd to mount, that I want to use the udev-created /dev/green_burner, so why do you indicate such usage is _deprecated_ in cdrecord? For such device nodes, a _filesystem_ is the preferred name=>number index, so why add an extra strange file "just because Solaris does".
And why again do you need stable SCSI addresses for my _USB_ drive?
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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