Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 12:16:24 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:00:28PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:50, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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). > > Well, OK, that's not an in-kernel issue.
It's definitely an in-kernel issue, because the mapping is in-kernel now:
<major,minor> -> queue
> My current thought for this is that deriving the unique name can be > awfully device specific (even in SCSI there are several fallback methods > plus the usual black/white list of things that don't quite return > entirely unique objects).
Agreed. And kernel assistance is likely necessary in many cases to obtain the unique id, even if it's only userspace that's reading it.
> Thus, I think the derivation probably belongs > in userspace as part of hotplug. Once the unique ID is determined, it > could be written to a well known place in the sysfs tree for all the > rest of the OS (things like udev for persistent device naming) to use.
Agreed, with the above proviso.
Jeff
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