Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

[Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:38:50AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> Thus, if you never address ATA devices by the WWN, you probably never
> want to make it part of the addressing scheme.
> 
> Exporting a unique ID for userspace to use is a different (and probably
> orthogonal) issue.

Oh, no question.  My main interest is having a persistent id for a
device's media.  Then Linux can use that to allow mapping in case device
names or majors change at each boot (and similar situations).

	Jeff



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