still looking for docs on new /etc/modprobe.conf

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 15:53:46 UTC 2003


Jef Spaleta (jspaleta at princeton.edu) said: 
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >USB, match vendor 0x0c52, product 0x2862
> 
> I plead total ignorance on the matter right up front...
> but is this sort of alias building a way around the problem when
> multiple usb devices like flash and keydrives are connected to the
> computer in different orders, thus getting different sbd number schemes
> depending on the order they are plugged in.

No.

> Is this possibly a way to
> tie specific usb devices by vender product id, to a specific /dev/
> listing and subsequently a specific /mnt/ at the kernel level.

devlabel should help with this.

Bill





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