Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448AbWHQI2s (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932449AbWHQI2r (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:28:47 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42889 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932446AbWHQI2p (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:28:45 -0400 Subject: Re: /dev/sd* From: Alan Cox To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Lee Trager , Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:45:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1155804314.15195.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 482 Lines: 11 Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 10:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Engelhardt: > (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed > "id*" for the IDE disks.) IDE basically did not exist at the time that the hd name was chosen. - 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/