Re: lots and lots of disks again

James Bottomley
2004-02-17T15:08:50Z

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