From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/sd*
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:58:16 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net>
Lee Trager wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Gabor Gombas wrote:
>>> AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only
>>> one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now
>>> getting there.
>> Yep. /dev/disk is a long term goal :)
[]
> I agree with Adrian, users are going to get confused if their devices
> are named something different once they switch to this new interface. So
> if we're going to confusing them why not just take the big leap and
> switch it over to /dev/disk? It seems to make more sense then to have
> all IDE and SATA users use /dev/sda for awhile only to down the road
> have to to switch to /dev/disk.
The reason, in my opinion anyway, is that not all the word is IDE now,
and it has been this way for a long time. I mean, real scsi uses /dev/sd*
*right now*, and changing this to /dev/disk* will break just everything,
not only people using IDE.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 17:29 Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Alan Cox
2006-08-09 20:16 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-10 6:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 6:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-10 6:25 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-11 15:47 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-15 13:31 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-08-15 13:35 ` Tejun Heo
2006-08-15 14:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 21:21 ` /dev/sd* Adrian Bunk
2006-08-09 21:40 ` /dev/sd* Mark Lord
2006-08-09 22:01 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-09 22:18 ` /dev/sd* Adrian Bunk
2006-08-10 1:44 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-10 6:19 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-10 4:46 ` /dev/sd* Greg KH
2006-08-10 12:36 ` /dev/sd* Gabor Gombas
2006-08-10 12:37 ` /dev/sd* Jeff Garzik
2006-08-17 3:17 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-17 7:58 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-08-17 8:10 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-17 8:42 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-17 8:01 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-17 8:29 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-17 9:21 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 7:11 ` /dev/sd* Seewer Philippe
2006-08-18 8:52 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 9:19 ` /dev/sd* Tejun Heo
2006-08-18 14:57 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-18 15:51 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 16:47 ` /dev/sd* Lee Revell
2006-08-18 17:02 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-21 6:04 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-21 6:17 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 12:45 ` /dev/sd* Bill Davidsen
2006-08-18 15:48 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-19 0:15 ` /dev/sd* Gabor Gombas
2006-08-17 8:45 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-10 6:24 ` Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Andi Kleen
2006-08-10 12:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 12:20 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 15:54 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 19:02 ` Jason Lunz
2006-08-10 19:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-17 3:26 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-17 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-17 9:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-17 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 3:38 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 3:57 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 19:22 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 20:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 8:17 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-21 0:44 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-10 19:47 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 19:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-11 15:48 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-10 22:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-08-24 3:31 ` Albert Lee
2006-08-24 3:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24 4:13 ` Doug Maxey
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