From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: ybin on powerpc Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:12:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20060819201215.fb0bc2d2.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060819111919.a60dca49.akpm@osdl.org> <1156024644.5803.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060819182818.bf3ff5bc.akpm@osdl.org> <20060820015629.GU4340@parisc-linux.org> <20060819192811.f7113147.akpm@osdl.org> <20060820030559.GV4340@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59600 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751471AbWHTDMZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:12:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060820030559.GV4340@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:05:59 -0600 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:28:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:56:30 -0600 > > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > BTW, the SCSI specs changed the name from CD-ROM to CD/DVD. I'd like to > > > reflect that change in /proc/scsi/scsi; is there any userspace currently > > > relying on that spelling? > > > > I think that's basically unknowable. How does one grep all userspace? > > apt-cache search? ;-) Well yeah. Smiley noted, but let us remember that "userspace" includes non-published and non-open-source code. > > The only practical way to find out is to change it, see what breaks and > > hope that people report it in time. That's a terribly blunt weapon. > > > > It's better to get the interfaces right first time ;) > > Yeah; kind of hard to do when the SCSI committee changes the spec on you. I think people will continue to understand what we mean.