Re: USB device allocation

Brian Swetland (swetland@be.com)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:20:23 -0700

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]
>
> Or is it that somebody still wants the awful....
>
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7
>
> ... that Sun uses??
>
> A simple shell-script will generate these for you. After all, these
> horrible names are simply a 'human readable' association with
> major and minor device numbers. You can name them anything. They
> don't even have to be in the /dev directory.

I'm partial to the longer-winded variants like /dev/disk/scsi/0/2/0/0_0
and /dev/ide/atapi/0/master/0/raw, but I'm also a bit biased.

Hmm, busses are sorta-tree-like, filesystems are sorta-tree-like...

Brian

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