From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:39 -0400 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:18953 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:29 -0400 Date: 15 May 2001 21:33:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <80wQzzS1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <3B016F9A.360A0CFD@mandrakesoft.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 15.05.01 in : > just incredibly stupid today. There's a script for doing exactly this for > SCSI. I forget what it's called, because I obviously think the thing is > stupid, but giving people the power to do even silly things is what Linux > is all about. Are you maybe talking about scsidev? It can produce names like /dev/scsi/ sdh24-e000c0i12l0p1 (ugh). It can *also* create names like /dev/scsi/QAt-p3 for "that's the third partition on the Quantum Atlas, I shouldn't put important stuff there because Quantums like to break". (The QAt part comes from a config file.) The latter I've used for quite a while (until I found mount-by-UUID). The former is unspeakably ugly. MfG Kai