Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932252AbWHQH6Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:58:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932254AbWHQH6Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:58:24 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:27480 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932250AbWHQH6X (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:58:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:58:16 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Trager CC: Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/sd* References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> <20060810123643.GC25187@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <44DB289A.4060503@garzik.org> <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net> In-Reply-To: <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=4F9CF57E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 27 Lee Trager wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Gabor Gombas wrote: >>> 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. >> Yep. /dev/disk is a long term goal :) [] > I agree with Adrian, users are going to get confused if their devices > are named something different once they switch to this new interface. So > if we're going to confusing them why not just take the big leap and > switch it over to /dev/disk? It seems to make more sense then to have > all IDE and SATA users use /dev/sda for awhile only to down the road > have to to switch to /dev/disk. The reason, in my opinion anyway, is that not all the word is IDE now, and it has been this way for a long time. I mean, real scsi uses /dev/sd* *right now*, and changing this to /dev/disk* will break just everything, not only people using IDE. /mjt - 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/