Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:50:56 -0400
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:36:13PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 
> So apparently I cannot rely on sysfs to get reliable persistent information 
> about physical location of devices.

That is correct, but you can get pretty close :)

> the point is - I want to create aliases that would point to specific slots. 
> I.e. when I plug USB memory stick in upper slot on front panel I'd like to 
> always create the same device alias for it.

Look at the udev announcement I posted to linux-kernel yesterday to see
how to do this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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