From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: hps@intermeta.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE feature request
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:43:38 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212091443.gB9EhcrH000900@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <at28st$ifd$1@forge.intermeta.de> from "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" at Dec 09, 2002 02:21:17 PM
> > > Fix ide.c to generate a b c d e f and you should be able to get 16.
> > Like this?
> Hmm,
>
> you will get the same problem again, once someone is able to cram more than
> 16 IDE hosts into a box. Why not go for ide%d (ide0-9, ide10-99)?
The code that was posted did 0-9 then a-z, which is good for 36. That
*should* be enough for most applications for a few years.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-09 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-07 2:25 IDE feature request Milan Roubal
2002-12-08 1:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-08 23:41 ` Petr Sebor
2002-12-09 14:21 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-09 14:28 ` Alex Riesen
2002-12-09 14:43 ` John Bradford [this message]
2002-12-09 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-10 15:07 ` IDE feature request & problem Milan Roubal
2002-12-10 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 0:24 ` Milan Roubal
2002-12-11 1:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 1:07 ` Milan Roubal
2002-12-11 20:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-12-12 18:12 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-13 14:41 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-12-13 18:03 ` Milan Roubal
2002-12-11 1:42 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-01-15 15:53 ` Milan Roubal
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