Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764459AbXJOOBV (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:01:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758295AbXJOOBM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:01:12 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49490 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757948AbXJOOBL (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:01:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:00:22 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Rob Landley Cc: Greg KH , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? Message-ID: <20071015070022.4a0c5957@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <200710150336.15774.rob@landley.net> References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141845.44750.rob@landley.net> <20071015060015.GB32268@kroah.com> <200710150336.15774.rob@landley.net> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 24 On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:36:15 -0500 Rob Landley wrote: > The point I was trying to make is that it seems to me like it would > be possible to keep the namespace separate here, and thus reduce the > enumeration problems to the point where common cases (like my laptop) > aren't impacted by them during early boot. I don't think anybody > (outside the embedded space) is actually upset that /dev/hda now goes > through the scsi layer: they're upset Ubuntu 7.04 no longer calls > it /dev/hda. that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like it, complain to them. I'm surprised you would even need to care about what device name things are though.... with mount-by-label (deployed for a bunch of years now in most distros), and various helpful links like /dev/cdrom .... anyway.. if you don't like your distros udev configuration, lkml is the wrong forum. - 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/