On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Ah. So all the minix, bsd and sun c?t?[dps]? naming is based on what then > (someone drinking just too much coffe?), if BTL/CTD/HCIL (call it what you > want) never existed? Right. It was a stupid idea even in the 80's. It's only gotten stupider since. Now, during the 80's it was at least _excusable_. It was reasonable to think that you can just enumerate the controllers. And it was simple, and since hotplug controllers back then was "operator plug", not the modern kind of "they magically show up", it worked and controller numbers _meant_ something (even though they'd change when you switched things around, but you can expect that). These days, you just cannot enumerate controllers in any meaningful manner. I don't think you ever really could, but at least with static hardware, any random enumeration was as good as any other. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
