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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:28:15 +0100
From: Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com>
To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE feature request
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:21:17PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:09:34AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Fix ide.c to generate a b c d e f and you should be able to get 16.
> >Like this?
> 
> 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)?

"%x" ? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f ... 10 11 .. hdeadbeef :)

> If we go to idea - idef now, we will be stuck with that for ages.
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