This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Jun 7 11:42:49 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (IDENT:root@entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA11036 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:42:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13517; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:42:46 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:37:25 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:37:07 -0400 Received: from flits102-126.flits.rug.nl ([129.125.102.126]:14385 "EHLO flits102-126.flits.rug.nl") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:36:55 -0400 Received: from flits102-126.flits.rug.nl (fokkensr@port15.dialin.keyaccess.nl [193.172.212.15]) by flits102-126.flits.rug.nl (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA30686; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:37:28 +0200 Message-Id: <3774BAA9.4E7FDFCC@flits102-126.flits.rug.nl> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:34:01 +0200 From: Rolf Fokkens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.10so i686) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: small scsi_scanorder patch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing-dig Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu id GAA11036 The kernel assigns minor SCSI device numbers dynamically. This is done by assigning them only to actually connected devices in order of their SCSI-id's (mostly ascending). This means that connecting an external SCSI device changes the minors of all internal devices with a higher SCSI-id forcing me to change /etc/fstab when connecting the external device and to change it back when disconnecting the device. I created a small scsiorder patch to solve this by fixing the problem where it originates. More info: http://flits102-126.flits.rug.nl/~rolf/scanorder/index.html There's a small description of the alternatives like devfs and scsidev as well. cheers! Rolf. :.˛mkabzwmb˛mbz_^nrzh&zvy杶ii