From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:18:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:18:26 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:41220 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:18:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20010520215300.A2647@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:53:00 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox , Ben LaHaise Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:25:22PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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