Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 09:01:01 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:

> ... Working with the 'physical
> location' of removeable devices will probably fail. The usb-storage
> devices here have a serial field, I really hope it is unique, use it.

Too optimistic.
I have several devices with serial number 0.

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