From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Garloff Subject: Re: New model for managing dev_t's for partitionable block devices Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:00:06 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030129180006.GT12690@E2.suse.de> References: <3E380532.2010900@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lpUp1egui7PDlNtH" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E380532.2010900@mvista.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Dake Cc: Bryan Henderson , Alan Cox , Douglas Gilbert , Christoph Hellwig , Joel Becker , linux-kernel@kernel.vger.org, Linux SCSI list --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Steven, On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > This is a problem with hotswap of course, and shouldn't be solved by the= =20 > kernel putting the same device always in the same major/minor. A=20 > userspace application should query the OS and build the device nodes=20 > based upon scsi serial number, FC port WWN, or access path=20 > (host/channel/id/lun). scsidev can do exactly this for you. Regards, --=20 Kurt Garloff Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers SuSE Labs (Head) SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE SCSI, Security --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OBamxmLh6hyYd04RAlfpAJ0cFdnOg82sb8sZHDk1vUFCGY5aDwCghavm OP76m8w/Qr/tkz0y3B5tU5o= =i6wW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lpUp1egui7PDlNtH--