From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761080AbXJOS5W (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:57:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754527AbXJOS5J (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:57:09 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([78.32.9.130]:45589 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753975AbXJOS5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:57:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:56:28 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Rob Landley , Greg KH , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin Message-ID: <20071015185627.GA7236@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141845.44750.rob@landley.net> <20071015060015.GB32268@kroah.com> <200710150336.15774.rob@landley.net> <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like > it, complain to them. Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just transition everything to UUIDs instead. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org