Re: drivers/block/ub.c

[Alan Stern]

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

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