From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:56:28 +0100 Message-ID: <20071015185627.GA7236@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141845.44750.rob@landley.net> <20071015060015.GB32268@kroah.com> <200710150336.15774.rob@landley.net> <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Rob Landley , Greg KH , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like > it, complain to them. Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just transition everything to UUIDs instead. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org