[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Both usb-storage and iee1394-sbp2 know the GUID. It only needs to be > communicated.. > > The usb-storage GUID is just one random item of information. > One might wish for much more. > > And: this information is already somewhere:
For example, on the 2.5 kernels one might also wish for the physical path to the USB device in question ... what usb_make_path() returns. (Simple enough to backport this to 2.4, which some folk have wanted.) It's a string like "usb-06:0f.1-3.2" indicating first that it's USB, then that it's the bus with name/serial "06:0f.1" (which in this case is a PCI function), then that it's connected to port 3 on the root hub, and port 2 on the hub connected there. That's a stable name: it won't change unless/until you re-cable things. Right now all of the 2.5 USB network adapters with ethool support return those strings in the bus_info field, FWIW -- someone else on this thread mentioned the need to asssign network interface names based on physical location, and for USB (and likely PCI) that can be done already. - Dave _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
