From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267727AbUHEXFh (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:05:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267752AbUHEXFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:05:36 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:42909 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267727AbUHEXF3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4112BCEE.10102@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:04:14 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrew Morton , Tupshin Harper1 , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: /dev/hdl not showing up because of fix-ide-probe-double-detection patch References: <411013F7.7080800@tupshin.com> <4111651E.1040406@tupshin.com> <20040804224709.3c9be248.akpm@osdl.org> <1091720165.8041.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1091720165.8041.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Two disks are not permitted to have the same serial number. Sure they are. But the combination of MODEL::SERIALNO is guaranteed to be unique. -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")