Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265151AbUF1Tum (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265155AbUF1Tum (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:50:42 -0400 Received: from ida.rowland.org ([192.131.102.52]:26116 "HELO ida.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265152AbUF1Tuc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:50:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:50:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@ida.rowland.org To: Oliver Neukum cc: Pete Zaitcev , Greg KH , , , , , , Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c In-Reply-To: <200406281842.28178.oliver@neukum.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 22 On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 17:40 schrieb Alan Stern: > > Or maybe I've misunderstood completely, not just partially. ?In any case, > > are you sure you will want to do this? ?The directive for not tracking > > serial numbers or trying in some other way to make devices appear to be > > persistent across reconnects came directly from Linus. > > IIRC he banned reconnecting device nodes in use. > Reusing the number is legal. In fact in a finite number space there's > always a chance that the number will have to be reused. Sure. But then why go to the trouble of tracking serial numbers to identify particular physical devices with particular minor numbers? Alan Stern - 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/