Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word | From | Rob Love <> | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:31:53 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 19:15, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> My plan has been to essentially use a hashed disk serial number > for this "any old unique value". The problem is that "any old" > is easy enough, but "unique" is more difficult. > Naming devices is very difficult, but in some important cases, > like SCSI or IDE disks, that would work and give a stable name.
Yup.
> The kernel must not invent consecutive numbers - that does not > lead to stable names. Setting this up correctly is nontrivial.
This is definitely an interesting problem space.
I agree wrt just inventing consecutive numbers. If there was a nice way to trivially generate a random and unique number from some device-inherent information, that would be nice.
Rob Love
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