From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264562AbUGYXgw (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:36:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264610AbUGYXgw (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:36:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:16872 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264562AbUGYXgp (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:36:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:05:21 -0400 From: Greg KH To: Chris Wedgwood , Jeff Garzik , Ricky Beam , "Eric D. Mudama" , "Robert M. Stockmann" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ? Message-ID: <20040725190521.GB30535@kroah.com> References: <20040713064645.GA1660@bounceswoosh.org> <20040713164911.GA947@havoc.gtf.org> <20040713223541.GB7980@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040715024414.GG28239@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040715024414.GG28239@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:44:14PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > initrd is such a PITA at times, I wondered about something hacky like > > sticking LABEL parsing for rootfs (marked init) into the kernel but > > it's really gross. > > > > Ideally the initrd/initramfs process just needs better (userspace) > > infrastructure to make it more reliable/easier. > > I'm waiting for udev to give me consistent device names easily. > Then I can specify root=/dev/disk1 and not have to scan-all-100-disks > for LABEL mounts. What's missing from udev to let you do this today? thanks, greg k-h