Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-15T20:30:08Z

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

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