From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:19:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:19:18 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:47887 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 11:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF63535.6000907@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:20:37 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 73 In-Reply-To: <3CF622F0.4050304@evision-ventures.com> <1022772774.12888.380.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3CF62F2A.6030009@evision-ventures.com> <1022775219.9255.385.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:54, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >>I don't use and don't care about devfs - it's a misconception in my opinnion. > > > Yes but there are lots of other opinions. And it was just one of several > examples of why you were proposing something utterly bogus > > > >>And last but not least: some devices which should be viewd as "same type" >>are hooked up to different major numbers instead of sharing them. >>Most prominent here are the differences between SCSI disks and ATA disks >>for example. From a technical point of view they don't make *any* sense. > > > Linus has explicitly stated he wants to do this and make all disks > appear the same and the same place. It actually makes lots of sense. LAST WARNING: Every body out there: watch out to use LABEL= in /etc/fstab or you will not be able to reboot between 2.4 and 2.5 soon! Things which have to be done in front: 1. Extract device registration from SCSI code. 2. Let the ATA/ATAPI code hook up on it. (ide-cs is the most difficult one.) 3. Let the old ATA/ATAPI major go down the bin...