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Kronos wrote:
> John W. Ross <programming@johnwross.com> ha scritto:

> 
> Because hwifs are statically allocated, see drivers/ide/ide.c:
> 
> ide_hwif_t ide_hwifs[MAX_HWIFS];        /* master data repository */
> 
> Also if names are ide0..ide9, the following would be ide: and ide; (see
> init_hwif_data in drivers/ide/ide.c).
> 


Why wouldn't they be ide10 and ide11?