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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:08:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly
> complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.
> 
> /dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean

Then make a '/proc/block/{ide|scsi|raid|wtf|ram|net}' which has a string
name for a real mknod thingy that includes the major|minor of the animal.

Is this simpler than the problem?


Andre Hedrick
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