From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tino Keitel Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:47:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Differend udev names with different kernels Message-Id: <20080925054708.GA18645@dose.home.local> List-Id: References: <20080924200127.GA2452@dose.home.local> <3ae72650809242012r7d144a64l35777f2a7bacbaa0@mail.gmail.com> <48DB1CC4.2040004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <48DB1CC4.2040004@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:08:20 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:01, Tino Keitel wrote: >>> what's the intention of /dev/disk/by-id/? >>> >>> My firewire hard disk seems to have different names with different >>> kernels. >>> >>> With 2.6.26.3, it's name is >>> /dev/disk/by-id/ieee1394-0030e001e0006585:00043c:0000. >>> >>> With someting after 2.6.27-rc7, merged with Arjan's fastboot branch, >>> the disk has the same name. > > Then this is a regression of the fastboot patch or whatever. It has the same name with 2.6.26.3 and with 2.6.27-rc7-something with fastboot merged. So why would this be a regression? The different name (scsi-...) happended with a vanilla 2.6.27-rc7. Initially, my intention was to find a unique name for the hard disk, that stays even if the disk is changed from Firewire to USB. However, this doesn't seem to be possible with a default udev. Regards, Tino