From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:53:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010520215300.A2647@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105191153400.5829-100000@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <E1519Xe-00005c-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E1519Xe-00005c-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:25:22PM +0100
Hi!
> > Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
> > echo "hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda" >/dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
> > the system can even send back result codes that way.
>
> Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would prefer a
> different command set.
Alan, bad idea.
This is less evil than magic numbers, and *users* should not be
touching this anyway. They should have nice gui tools that do it for
them.
English is *way* better than magic numbers. It makes sense at least
for someone.
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-21 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-19 11:09 [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-19 11:43 ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-19 12:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-19 12:06 ` [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion codein userspace Andrew Morton
2001-05-19 15:56 ` [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace Ben LaHaise
2001-05-19 16:25 ` [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code Alan Cox
2001-05-19 16:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-19 16:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-19 18:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-05-19 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-19 22:34 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-19 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 0:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-20 17:10 ` Padraig Brady
2001-05-20 19:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-19 8:30 [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace Alexander Viro
2001-05-19 14:02 ` [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code Alan Cox
2001-05-19 16:48 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-19 17:45 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-19 19:38 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-19 20:53 ` Steven Walter
2001-05-19 18:51 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-20 2:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-20 2:22 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-20 2:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-20 2:48 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-20 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 10:23 ` Russell King
2001-05-20 10:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 18:57 ` Russell King
2001-05-20 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 19:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 20:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-20 20:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 23:59 ` Paul Fulghum
2001-05-21 0:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-21 3:08 ` Paul Fulghum
2001-05-20 20:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-20 23:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-05-21 0:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-21 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-21 19:32 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-23 1:15 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-20 2:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 2:51 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-20 21:13 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-21 20:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21 20:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-21 21:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21 21:51 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-21 21:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-21 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-21 22:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-22 2:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-05-22 15:41 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 13:33 ` Jan Harkes
2001-05-22 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-22 0:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-22 0:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-22 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-22 1:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-22 7:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-22 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 15:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-22 15:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-20 2:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-20 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 19:11 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 19:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-05-20 19:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 19:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-20 19:57 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-21 13:57 ` Ingo Oeser
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