From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20060810062513.GA12947@aepfle.de> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DA4288.6020806@rtr.ca> <44DACE9F.3090909@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from natlemon.rzone.de ([81.169.145.170]:8949 "EHLO natlemon.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161080AbWHJGZc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:25:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44DACE9F.3090909@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:13:51AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > >This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about > >an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when > >libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration > >path in the far future. > > Unfortunately a symlink won't work because of compatibility issues. > /dev/hd supports more partitions, and a different set of ioctls. Is there a dm-$partition.ko that assigns a bunch of dm-N devices per partition table entry? Or can all that be done from userland, parsing the on-disk partition table and create dm-N devices to access everything thats accessible now?