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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE feature request
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Petr Sebor <petr@scssoft.com> writes:


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>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?

Hmm,

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.

	Regards
		Henning

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