From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:30:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:29:48 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:1544 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:29:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3B019182.D9524691@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:28:50 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , James Simmons , Jeff Garzik , Neil Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > [ The biggest silliness is this "let's try to make the disks appear in the > > same order that the BIOS probes them". Now THAT is really stupid, and it > > goes on a lot more than I'd ever like to see. ] > > RIght - Lilo needs to know but nobody else should except when they need to ask > eg to find which disk failed > There would be some value to an informational ioctl() or other query mechanism to give the firmware identifier (BIOS on PC platforms.) This may, of course, be "null" in which case you need to give an error message if you're trying to boot from it! -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt