Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932262AbWHQITL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:19:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932259AbWHQITL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:19:11 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:28619 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbWHQITK (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:19:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:10:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Michael Tokarev cc: Lee Trager , Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/sd* In-Reply-To: <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> Message-ID: 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> <44E42198.3030500@tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 28 >>>> 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. Some people already went through this when devfs hit the scene, and once again when it left the scene. Should be practiced now :) Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/