From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: /dev/sd* Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:42:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1155804143.15195.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> <20060810123643.GC25187@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <44DB289A.4060503@garzik.org> <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:2733 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932165AbWHQIZz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:25:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Lee Trager , Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 11:58 +0400, ysgrifennodd Michael Tokarev: > 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. If people would like their disks to appear in /dev/disk/ by label or whatever just send Greg some udev rules for it. It isnt a kernel problem what it is called just some of the things around partitions