Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161064AbWHJGN7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161066AbWHJGN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:58 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14801 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161063AbWHJGN5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:57 -0400 Message-ID: <44DACE9F.3090909@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:13:51 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DA4288.6020806@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <44DA4288.6020806@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 17 Mark Lord wrote: > This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about > an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when > libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration > path in the far future. Unfortunately a symlink won't work because of compatibility issues. /dev/hd supports more partitions, and a different set of ioctls. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/