> You could probably reliably map "hda/b/c/d" initially with some kind of > forwarder providing nobody hot plugged them. Just not sure I see the PATA hotplug? SATA systems typically already use /dev/sda*, it just applies to PATA. > point of doing it kernel side. The point would be that old user land just works without any changes. I know that is a virtue that has gone out of fashion recently with udev and sysfs, but older distributions that weren't that sysfs-layout-of-the-week dependent used to be fairly kernel version independent. I always found that very useful. The hda->sda move would be the only "radical" change that prevents booting for a long time (the last one before that was the 2.5 modutils transition) -Andi - 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
