From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "J.C. Wren" <jcwren@jcwren.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:07:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030726170714.GC3168@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307261259.03517.jcwren@jcwren.com>
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:59:03PM -0400, J.C. Wren wrote:
> Specifically using your example of USB memories, I have seen devices move
> around just because of rebooting. I have a Sandisk SDDR-31 (MMC) and a
> SDDR-33 (CF) that remain plugged into the same USB ports all the time.
> Occasionally, they come up swapped (normally the MMC reader is /dev/sda),
> which is really infuriating, since my scripts for building MMC and CF cards
> then exhibit much breakage.
Test out udev's ability to name devices based on bus topology (the USB
bus topology doesn't change for you.) It should solve your problem.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-26 16:36 Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-26 16:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-26 16:50 ` Greg KH
2003-07-28 16:44 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-28 17:03 ` Greg KH
2003-08-17 16:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-08-17 18:28 ` Greg KH
2003-08-18 2:04 ` jw schultz
2003-08-18 20:47 ` Greg KH
2003-07-26 16:54 ` OSDL
2003-07-26 16:59 ` J.C. Wren
2003-07-26 17:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-26 22:51 ` Dax Kelson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 6:21 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-08-18 20:42 ` your mail Greg KH
2003-08-31 10:54 ` Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-09-24 21:18 ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 20:34 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-17 21:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-19 13:08 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-19 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-19 14:04 ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-14 11:53 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-14 19:25 ` Horst von Brand
2003-08-19 17:56 David Brownell
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