From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: admin: devices: /dev/sr<N> for SCSI CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:57:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6nq18pc.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0a3e0aa-e4f9-41d3-8931-57837831d136@gmail.com>
Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> Don't claim that /dev/sr<N> device names for SCSI CD-ROM drives are
> deprecated and don't recommend /dev/scd<N> alternate names for them.
>
> /dev/scd<N> device names for SCSI CD-ROM drives are not in use for more
> than a decade, see commit [1] that was a part of udev release 174.
> Earlier, related rules were volatile, sometimes /dev/scd<N> were syminks
> to /dev/sr<N>, sometimes vice versa.
>
> Recognizing of root=/dev/scd<N> kernel command line argument was removed
> in kernel 2.5.45 [2].
>
> In the docs /dev/scd<N> became recommended names in 2.6.9 [3].
> Mention of these names appeared much earlier in 1.3.22 [4].
I've applied this one, thanks.
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-22 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-28 17:12 [PATCH] docs: admin: devices: /dev/sr<N> for SCSI CD-ROM Max Nikulin
2025-11-29 6:13 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-11-29 15:01 ` Max Nikulin
2025-11-30 1:54 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-12-16 14:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Max Nikulin
2025-12-17 2:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2025-12-22 21:57 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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