From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:28:38 +0000 Subject: Re: work-around for video4linux sysfs Message-Id: <20070801232838.GA6195@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20070731195136.GW9881@outflux.net> In-Reply-To: <20070731195136.GW9881@outflux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:14:18PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:39:24PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > USB serial numbers are up in the USB device, which you should be able to > > get by just walking up the device chain in sysfs. > > > > PCI devices on their own don't have a standard for serial numbers :( > > Right, and since there wasn't a common serial number, best I saw was > the path_id stuff. :) Ok, in looking at the sysfs tree, which seems pretty sane, I don't know of any other way to try to implement this, so I have no objection to your changes. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel