>> 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. I think apps should not rely on the name specifying whether a device is IDE/SCSI. After all, udev names like "/by-id/..." don't tell anything about device type whatsoever, like "hda"/"sda" do. Jan Engelhardt -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
