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
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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> 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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