Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> But they *don't* map to consistent device names. All hot pluggable 
> devices seem to map to the next available name. Looking at one of my 
> utility systems, it has IDE drives mapped by Redhat with ide-scsi, real 
> SCSI drives, a couple of flash card slots mapped to SCSI, and a USB 
> device, all in the /dev/sdX namespace. And in the order in which they 
> were detected (connected, in other words).
> 
> Joerg hasn't made it any better, but it isn't great anyway. I recommend 
> a script to do discovery and make symlinks somewhere to names which 
> always match the same device.

Exactly. But although this is very easy with addressing by names in /dev
(just make the symlink), I do not see any sane solution in Joerg's world.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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