From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:59:41 -0500 Message-ID: <493ECE2D.8080404@rtr.ca> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <200812061551.08525.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206120001.3580b9e3@tuna> <200812062241.35601.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206222423.04aada70@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <493B022B.3050406@ru.mvista.com> <493B0A8E.7000506@garzik.org> <493B0DF2.4090901@ru.mvista.com> <493B0F36.6030509@garzik.org> <86802c440812061936v4629857ehbd2705e389e4378b@mail.gmail.com> <493B4E52.6080905@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:48889 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753564AbYLIT62 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:58:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <493B4E52.6080905@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Yinghai Lu , Sergei Shtylyov , Alan Cox , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , =?UTF-8?B?RGFuIE5vw6k=?= , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Garzik 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