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Subject: Re: IDE feature request
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:21, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> you will get the same problem again, once someone is able to cram more than
> 16 IDE hosts into a box. Why not go for ide%d (ide0-9, ide10-99)?
> 
> If we go to idea - idef now, we will be stuck with that for ages.

Minimal change for 2.4 - you run out of minors anyway 8)

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