From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:51 -0400 Message-ID: <44DACE9F.3090909@garzik.org> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DA4288.6020806@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14801 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161063AbWHJGN5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44DA4288.6020806@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. Jeff