From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Dake Subject: Re: dev nodes assignement ? Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:46:59 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E380583.4090609@mvista.com> References: <20030129110004.22210.qmail@web20421.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030129110004.22210.qmail@web20421.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: devnetfs Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > > >