From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261305AbTJ2TIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:08:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbTJ2TIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:08:47 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:3761 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbTJ2TIn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:08:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:07:16 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Eric.Chacron@alcatel.fr Cc: "Guo, Min" , Steven Dake , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Lars Marowsky-Bree , "Ling, Xiaofeng" , Mark Bellon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgl_discussion@osdl.org Subject: Re: [cgl_discussion] RE: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumation (uSDE) Message-ID: <20031029190715.GA4241@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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