Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10T06:13:59Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about
> an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when
> libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration
> path in the far future.

Unfortunately a symlink won't work because of compatibility issues.
/dev/hd supports more partitions, and a different set of ioctls.

Jeff