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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:09:13 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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       Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>, ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.
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Ian Pratt wrote:
>> 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. However, the installers of certain
> older distros and other user space tools won't except anything other
> than hdX/sdX, so its useful from a compatibility POV even if it never
> goes into mainline, which I agree it probably shouldn't. 
>   

Then perhaps we should deprecate non xd block devices starting in the 
near future (3.0.3?).  We probably need to have it deprecated for a few 
releases since I think most people are not using xd at this point...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian
>   

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