From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>,
"Sergei Shtylyov" <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
"Dan Noé" <dpn@isomerica.net>,
"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"FUJITA Tomonori" <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
osst@riede.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:59:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493ECE2D.8080404@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493B4E52.6080905@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
..
>> interesting, so will get /dev/ada instead of /dev/sda?
>
> That is an interesting question. The easiest thing is to allocate a new
> 32-bit block major. But the more compatible (and more controversial)
> solution is to allocate from the SCSI disk blkmajor space.
..
Perhaps "sdx" and "scdx" should simply be redefined as "System disk"
and "System CD", and moved under block layer ownership from SCSI ?
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 1:38 [PATCH] remove ide-scsi FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-03 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-03 13:31 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-03 13:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-03 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 15:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-06 6:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2008-12-06 14:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 14:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 16:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 15:25 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-06 15:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 17:00 ` Dan Noé
2008-12-06 21:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 22:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 23:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 0:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 14:46 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 15:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-07 15:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 22:21 ` libata / scsi separation Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-09 22:38 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-10 3:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 1:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 2:29 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 2:47 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 3:23 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 3:44 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 15:33 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 16:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 17:11 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 17:21 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-07 0:19 ` [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 9:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 10:41 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 21:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 17:46 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 23:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-07 3:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-07 4:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-07 5:07 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-07 11:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 19:59 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-12-09 20:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-09 21:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-06 23:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 23:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 0:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-07 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 10:32 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 22:33 ` Al Viro
2008-12-06 23:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:17 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-07 0:09 ` Al Viro
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