Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 11:50:53 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:38:50AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > Thus, if you never address ATA devices by the WWN, you probably never > want to make it part of the addressing scheme. > > Exporting a unique ID for userspace to use is a different (and probably > orthogonal) issue.
Oh, no question. My main interest is having a persistent id for a device's media. Then Linux can use that to allow mapping in case device names or majors change at each boot (and similar situations).
Jeff
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