Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263894AbTE0Phl (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263867AbTE0Phk (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:37:40 -0400 Received: from host-64-213-145-173.atlantasolutions.com ([64.213.145.173]:1745 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263854AbTE0Phj (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:37:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:50:53 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: James Bottomley Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver Message-ID: <20030527155053.GB21744@gtf.org> References: <1054047595.1975.64.camel@mulgrave> <20030527152113.GA21744@gtf.org> <1054049931.1975.129.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054049931.1975.129.camel@mulgrave> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 20 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:38:50AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > Thus, if you never address ATA devices by the WWN, you probably never > want to make it part of the addressing scheme. > > Exporting a unique ID for userspace to use is a different (and probably > orthogonal) issue. Oh, no question. My main interest is having a persistent id for a device's media. Then Linux can use that to allow mapping in case device names or majors change at each boot (and similar situations). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/