Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On May 30, 2005, at 08:26:43, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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.

But why fix what isn't broken?  I can tell all my other programs, from
dd to mount, that I want to use the udev-created /dev/green_burner, so
why do you indicate such usage is _deprecated_ in cdrecord?  For such
device nodes, a _filesystem_ is the preferred name=>number index, so
why add an extra strange file "just because Solaris does".

And why again do you need stable SCSI addresses for my _USB_ drive?



Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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