Lee Trager wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Gabor Gombas wrote: >>> AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only >>> one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now >>> getting there. >> Yep. /dev/disk is a long term goal :) [] > I agree with Adrian, users are going to get confused if their devices > are named something different once they switch to this new interface. So > if we're going to confusing them why not just take the big leap and > switch it over to /dev/disk? It seems to make more sense then to have > all IDE and SATA users use /dev/sda for awhile only to down the road > have to to switch to /dev/disk. The reason, in my opinion anyway, is that not all the word is IDE now, and it has been this way for a long time. I mean, real scsi uses /dev/sd* *right now*, and changing this to /dev/disk* will break just everything, not only people using IDE. /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
