2002-01-07 10:24:49

by Philippe Trottier

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Subject: 2.5 suggestion

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


2002-01-07 11:27:52

by Jose Luis Domingo Lopez

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Subject: Re: 2.5 suggestion

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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2002-01-07 17:20:47

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: 2.5 suggestion

Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Philippe Trottier <[email protected]>
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.

-hpa
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