Re: dev nodes assignement ?

[Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>]

first come first serve.  devfs defines the device nodes using access 
path (host/channel/id/lun) which is a bit more usable for hotswap 
situtations, assuming your id's don't change.

Thanks
-steve

devnetfs wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is /dev/sdX scsi dev node assignment based *only* on the pci-slot
>the HBA's are in? or also upon the order in which the LLDD is loaded?
>
>In other words does the mid-layer scan+make-a-list of all HBA's on
>the system (and thereby assigning the /dev name) and then when a LLDD
>is loaded, tells it the HBA-list? 
>OR
>Does each LLDD does a pci-scan and assign /dev name for HBA's that it
>can handle -- in which case the order of LLDD getting loaded is also
>important in deciding the /dev/sdX name.
>
>Please clarify, 
>Thanks in advance
>A.
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
>http://mailplus.yahoo.com
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in
>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>
>
>
>  
>