From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:50:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030726165056.GA3168@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307262036.13989.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:36:13PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> So apparently I cannot rely on sysfs to get reliable persistent information
> about physical location of devices.
That is correct, but you can get pretty close :)
> the point is - I want to create aliases that would point to specific slots.
> I.e. when I plug USB memory stick in upper slot on front panel I'd like to
> always create the same device alias for it.
Look at the udev announcement I posted to linux-kernel yesterday to see
how to do this.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-26 16:36 Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-26 16:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-26 16:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-28 16:44 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-28 17:03 ` Greg KH
2003-08-17 16:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-08-17 18:28 ` Greg KH
2003-08-18 2:04 ` jw schultz
2003-08-18 20:47 ` Greg KH
2003-07-26 16:54 ` OSDL
2003-07-26 16:59 ` J.C. Wren
2003-07-26 17:07 ` Greg KH
2003-07-26 22:51 ` Dax Kelson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 6:21 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-08-18 20:42 ` your mail Greg KH
2003-08-31 10:54 ` Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-09-24 21:18 ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 20:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-17 20:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-17 21:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 21:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-18 1:03 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-18 14:05 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-19 19:51 ` Greg KH
2004-03-14 19:25 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-14 19:25 ` Horst von Brand
2004-01-19 13:08 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 13:08 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-19 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-19 14:04 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 14:04 ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-14 11:53 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-14 11:53 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-08-19 17:56 David Brownell
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