Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?

[Olaf Hering]

 On Mon, Jan 19, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > ... Working with the 'physical
> > location' of removeable devices will probably fail. The usb-storage
> > devices here have a serial field, I really hope it is unique, use it.
> 
> Too optimistic.
> I have several devices with serial number 0.

Nice... Is 'serial' empty, or does it just have '0' in it? And would it
also fail to use vendor/device id for these beasts?

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