From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: lots and lots of disks again Date: 17 Feb 2004 10:08:24 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1077030506.1757.13.camel@mulgrave> References: <20040211220918.GJ4010@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040211142933.484ca978.akpm@osdl.org> <20040211225348.GM21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212150035.GN1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040212155721.GS21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212161800.GU1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> <1076604183.2576.89.camel@mulgrave> <20040216124047.GG4011@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040216225704.GA3420@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1076979373.1758.688.camel@mulgrave> <20040217075724.GA3805@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat1.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.130]:12423 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266222AbUBQPIu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:08:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040217075724.GA3805@tpkurt.garloff.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff Cc: Andries Brouwer , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, SCSI Mailing List , pbadari@us.ibm.com, willy@debian.org On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 02:57, Kurt Garloff wrote: > You underestimate the amount of cruft code out there that does care. > Unfortunately. Some programs (think scsiformat, ...) do want to know > what transport the underlying hardware actually uses. And determine > this by looking at the device number. > I expect it will take some time to sort this all out. Well, yes, that's why the opt in for 2.6, opt out for 2.7 expect all apps to be fixed by 2.8 roadmap... James