Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420AbWHRQqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751424AbWHRQqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:46:36 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:52374 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751419AbWHRQqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:46:35 -0400 Subject: Re: /dev/sd* From: Lee Revell To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Alan Cox , Seewer Philippe , 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> <44E42900.1030905@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E56804.1080906@bfh.ch> <1155913072.28764.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:47:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1155919638.24907.54.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 21 On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Umm, hdx or sdx is a small impact. The real power of /dev/disk is that > >> not-so-technically minded users can go looking for their disk by its name > > > >They already can. It appears on their desktop with a little picture that > >says "My iSpod" or similar 8) > > Not everyone follows Linus's "suggestion" to use KDE. Actually, there are > even people not thrilled by either KDE or GNOME. It works the same way in Gnome (and any reasonable desktop OS). If users really don't want an integrated desktop environment I think they get to figure out the disk naming issues themselves. Lee - 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/