Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933127AbXJPGeo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:34:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763432AbXJPGee (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:34:34 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:35114 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760993AbXJPGed (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:34:33 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <47145B31.8080104@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:33:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Greg KH , Rob Landley , 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? References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141845.44750.rob@landley.net> <20071015060015.GB32268@kroah.com> <200710150336.15774.rob@landley.net> <20071015172513.GA5738@kroah.com> <4713B58B.9050905@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <4713B58B.9050905@garzik.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 33 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:36:15AM -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. >> >> Proposals on how to do this would be gladly reviewed. > > Agreed. - move the networking core's facilities to build the default name of an interface into lib/ - expand it to optionally use base-26 numbering (a...nn...zzz) as alternative to decimal numbering - let SCSI low-level drivers optionally provide a short constant string, resembling its transport name, in the host template or transport template - let SCSI high-level driver make use of the new naming functions in lib/, providing either just "sd", "sr" etc. or "sd-$transport-" as name prefix No patch yet, and alas I'm currently short of spare time. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =-=- =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/