Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161228AbWHJMgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161230AbWHJMgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:36:46 -0400 Received: from boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu ([193.224.70.237]:64904 "EHLO boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161228AbWHJMgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:36:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:36:44 +0200 From: Gabor Gombas To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/sd* Message-ID: <20060810123643.GC25187@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> X-Copyright: Forwarding or publishing without permission is prohibited. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 26 On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:18:57AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Real SCSI for a developer, for a user it's USB. For a user it's a "disk" no matter what cable type (SCSI, SATA, USB, Firewire...) is used for connecting it to the computer. You can even connect the very same disk to the machine using either SATA/PATA, USB or Firewire cables depending on the enclosure, so making the naming of SATA/PATA/USB/etc. disks different is much more confusing. AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now getting there. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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/