Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I submitted the following bugreport (bnc#717326):

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The current Lanana devices list
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/devices.txt reserves sd* name
for SCSI block devices, while USB devices should have name of the type ub*:


USB block devices
        0 = /dev/uba        First USB block device
        8 = /dev/ubb        Second USB block device
        16 = /dev/ubc        Thrid USB block device

But in openSUSE USB devices are actually assigned names in sd* range making
automatic device type detection impossible or difficult. I faced this issue
when making a patch for KDE3 that should detect removable media without hal and
which is based on analysis of /proc/self/mounts entries.

Thus the mtab backend thinks about USB drives as of hard disks.

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It is actually interesting why USB devices are assigned SCSI-names, and should 
not they receive USB names. 
Another question is that it seems that even SATA and parallel IDE devices also 
receive the SCSI-name.
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