Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750871AbWHRHMg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:12:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750816AbWHRHMg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:12:36 -0400 Received: from mr1.bfh.ch ([147.87.250.50]:1511 "EHLO mr1.bfh.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814AbWHRHMf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:12:35 -0400 Message-ID: <44E56804.1080906@bfh.ch> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:11:00 +0200 From: Seewer Philippe Organization: BFH User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt 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> <44E42900.1030905@PicturesInMotion.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2006 07:11:00.0157 (UTC) FILETIME=[755CCED0:01C6C295] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 25 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> In the process, we can rename the then-"generic disk" (scsi ide whatever) >>> back to "hd*" since that actually expands to Hard Disk. >>> (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed >>> "id*" for the IDE disks.) >>> >> Actually that does make more sense then using disk. So I guess we're >> back to square one. Personally I don't think its that big of a deal, all >> you have to do is change fstab and grub or lilo. My main concern is for >> the less advanced Linux users. > > Less advanced users should use the upgrade tools their distribution > provides. And personally I think less advanced users will be very happy with /dev/disk (or /dev/hd). No more confusion wether to user /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx or whatever! Philippe Seewer - 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/