Goals for 0.3.0

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:05 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 01:56 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > What should we do with the major/minor numbers in the volume's udi?
> > Replace it by the volume-name or the uuid?
> 
> That probably makes sense, although we also need to fix it for the
> actual drive itself as well.  Basically we need to eliminate all uses of
> major/minor in UDIs.

Yeah, but what is a candidate for the drive's udi? On ide or native scsi
we can read the drives serial numbers. I can prepare something, if needed.
But on the usb-sticks or usb-ide adapters we don't have a chance to get
serial numbers. What should we do here?

Similar topic:
Should the network-adapter udi's should use the MAC address instead of
the device id's?

> > Btw: Any objections to add "D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" to configure.in? It
> > instructs gcc to use the 64bit versions of the file operations, so I can
> > switch back in volume_id to keep it compatible with the udev version. 
> 
> Yeah, good idea, although it probably only should be done on Linux, no?

Don't know if can hurt something else. Can't we use 64bit all over the
place?

Kay

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