Ian Pratt wrote: >> This seems to be pretty evil and creating interesting failure >> conditions for users who load IDE or SCSI modules. I've seen >> it trip up a number of people in the past. I think we should >> only ever use the major number that was actually allocated to us. >> > > We certainly should be pushing everyone toward using the 'xdX' etc > devices that are allocated to us. However, the installers of certain > older distros and other user space tools won't except anything other > than hdX/sdX, so its useful from a compatibility POV even if it never > goes into mainline, which I agree it probably shouldn't. > Then perhaps we should deprecate non xd block devices starting in the near future (3.0.3?). We probably need to have it deprecated for a few releases since I think most people are not using xd at this point... Regards, Anthony Liguori > Ian >
