From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:26:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog
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Toon van der Pas <toon@hout.vanvergehaald.nl> wrote:

> > look up the man page for udev(8), pay particular attention to the part
> > that can tie devname into device serial number.
> > take note of the example shown under 'serial'.
>
> These were my thoughts too.
> But I just checked the entries in my sysfs tree for my CDRW drive,
> and there is no serial number available...

BTW: an implementation that uses something like Solaris does with
/etc/path_to_inst and puts USB serial numbers into the path_to_inst 
kernel instance database could come very close to the desired result 
and would give stable SCSI addresses too.

J?rg

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