From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ybin on powerpc
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:05:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820030559.GV4340@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060819192811.f7113147.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:28:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:56:30 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> 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? ;-)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1156024644.5803.73.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-08-20 1:28 ` ybin on powerpc Andrew Morton
2006-08-20 1:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-20 2:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-20 3:05 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-08-20 3:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-20 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-20 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-20 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-21 10:06 ` Paul Nasrat
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