Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Mark Lord
2008-12-09T19:59:41Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
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>> 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