From: "Tim Pepper" <tpepper@vato.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux 2.5.25
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:04:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020707180408.A11779@vato.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207051646280.2484-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:54:20PM -0700
On Fri 05 Jul at 16:54:20 -0700 torvalds@transmeta.com done said:
>
> The other thing that we should sort out eventually is the unified naming
> for disk devices, now that both IDE and SCSI are starting to have some
> support for driverfs. Let's make sure that we _can_ have sane ways of
> accessing a disk, without having to care whether it is IDE or SCSI or
> anything else.
...and a way that scales better when naming large numbers of disks than
disk_name()'s stuff like:
sprintf(buf, "sd%c%c", 'a' + unit / 26, 'a' + unit % 26);
t.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-05 23:54 linux 2.5.25 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-06 5:35 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-06 8:17 ` [patch] Typo fixes in input code Brad Hards
2002-07-06 17:48 ` James Simmons
2002-07-07 2:22 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-08 11:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-06 13:54 ` linux 2.5.25 (and LVM) Matthias Andree
2002-07-08 8:43 ` Joe Thornber
2002-07-08 8:40 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-08 1:04 ` Tim Pepper [this message]
2002-07-08 12:44 ` [PATCH] 2.5.25 end_request trivia Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-05 4:47 linux 2.5.25 Ivan Gyurdiev
2002-07-06 17:38 ` James Simmons
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