Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:17:12 +1000
Ralf Baechle writes:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:32:00PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>
> > > It is currently not clear how we'll identify devices on USB (their
> > > unique serial numbers are not that unique after all).
> >
> > The right answer is "export all the information to user space and
> > let the user choose the naming scheme he likes". For example, I'd
> > prefer identifying my two (hypothetical) USB mice with identical
> > serial numbers by position in the bus topology and the other
> > devices having sane serial numbers by the serial numbers.
>
> The whole devfs thing is a tradeoff. It solves real problems and if
> the loss or partial loss of the current freedom in device naming is
> the price then that's imho a good tradeoff.
Except that there *isn't* a loss of freedom in naming. Devfsd allows
you to construct your own names.
Regards,
Richard....
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