On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:01:04AM +0300, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Marc A. Volovic wrote: > > > > > >Assuming you are running devfs, you can know which device is what - since > >they're indicated by their host, channel, id and lun. > > > No-no, no devfs here. > > >Of course - devfs is being invalided out of the kernel, so you need to get > >friendly with sysfs and company and or udevfs. > I have tried this approach. Sysfs is exactly the reason for adding the > "portable accross 2.6" line. The sysfs structure appears to be different > between two kernels we tried (2.6.5 as supplied with SLES9 and vanilla > 2.6.12) and probably also has pecularities for every minor version. > I'll look upon udevfs as soon as I get to work -- I have no acquaintance > whatsoever with it.
It's called udev, BTW. It's not a filesystem like devfs, it's a hotplug-based tool. You put /dev on e.g. tmpfs and let udev populate it as needed. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
