From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: kronos@kronoz.cjb.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increasing IDE Channels
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:03:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ED9A6F.8020506@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708182654.GA10246@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
Kronos wrote:
> Il Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:58:18AM -0400, Timothy Miller 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?
>
>
> No:
>
> static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *hwif, unsigned int index)
> {
> ...
> hwif->name[0] = 'i';
> hwif->name[1] = 'd';
> hwif->name[2] = 'e';
> hwif->name[3] = '0' + index;
>
> '0' + 10 is ':' and '0' + 11 is ';'
>
> Luca
I understand WHY it's ':' and ';'. I still think it's a bug. Solaris
rolls from 9 to 10, 11, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-07 22:56 Increasing IDE Channels Kronos
2004-07-08 15:58 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 18:26 ` Kronos
2004-07-08 19:03 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-07-08 19:28 ` Kronos
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2004-07-07 22:20 John W. Ross
2004-07-07 22:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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