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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [cgl_discussion] RE: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumation	(uSDE)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:07:16 -0800
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:20:01PM +0100, Eric.Chacron@alcatel.fr wrote:
> 
> 
> >From a pure technical point of view  and from presentations made by the
> authors of u*** perspective
> i think uSDE could add some interresting features like a customizable
> naming policy.

udev doesn't provide such a feature right now?

> For instance: geographical addressing to identify devices using rack,
> subrack, slot numbers seems possible.

Sure, udev can do that today, if you have a way of identifying devices
in such a manner.

thanks,

greg k-h