Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:50, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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).

Well, OK, that's not an in-kernel issue.

My current thought for this is that deriving the unique name can be
awfully device specific (even in SCSI there are several fallback methods
plus the usual black/white list of things that don't quite return
entirely unique objects).  Thus, I think the derivation probably belongs
in userspace as part of hotplug.  Once the unique ID is determined, it
could be written to a well known place in the sysfs tree for all the
rest of the OS (things like udev for persistent device naming) to use.

James