In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808210639460.18987-100000@feral-gw>  Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Stefan Grefen wrote:
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> > In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808202147500.14516-100000@feral-gw>  Matthew Jacob wrote:

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> > > 
> > > I've had a long standing projects, actually in the NetBSD projects
> > > list, to do global device naming. Between WWN's and VPD and other
> > > info, naming disks at least globally is the right thing to do.
> > > 
> > 
> > Let do it NOW. Are there any objections (esp. from people deciding if it
> > goes in the tree or not, charles? jason? Chris? ... ).
> > 
> 
> Do we need to consider the complexity of remapping the root and swap
> identifiers for the dynamic names?
> 


I don't see the problem, I would create the device-name during probe/attach
(I know it means reading the label of a disk very early and polled). 
Mountroot will be happy.  (this solves also the problem with scsi-id's lower
then roots which may be there or not ...)

When would you create the device name?

Stefan
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Stefan Grefen                                Tandem Computers Europe Inc.
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