Re: 2.5 suggestion

Re: 2.5 suggestion

[José Luis Domingo López]

On Monday, 07 January 2002, at 14:22:58 +0200,
Philippe Trottier wrote:

> To prevent big confusion after adding or removing hardware (IDE, SCSI,
> Network) would it be possible to assign them an order of detection or
> give them a fixed Major / minor ?
> 
Try devfs. For more information, see:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html

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2.5 suggestion

[Philippe Trottier]

To prevent big confusion after adding or removing hardware (IDE, SCSI,
Network) would it be possible to assign them an order of detection or
give them a fixed Major / minor ?

so that /dev/sd? always refer to the same physical device...

Philippe Trottier

Re: 2.5 suggestion

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201071317340.8864-100000@tchiwam2.invers.fi>
By author:    Philippe Trottier <tchiwam@invers.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> To prevent big confusion after adding or removing hardware (IDE, SCSI,
> Network) would it be possible to assign them an order of detection or
> give them a fixed Major / minor ?
> 

There is no such order possible.  Really.

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