From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:04:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
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Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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