>>>> 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. Some people already went through this when devfs hit the scene, and once again when it left the scene. Should be practiced now :) Jan Engelhardt -- - 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
