On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:52 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > This is another thing that has always put me off. The > > virtual block device driver has the ability to masquerade as > > other types of block devices. It actually claims to be an > > IDE or SCSI device allocating the appropriate major/minor numbers. > > > > 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. yes but you are faking something stupid ;) You aren't ide, you don't take the IDE ioctls. So please just nuke this bit..
