Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965849AbXJPU5X (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:57:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935170AbXJPU4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:56:55 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41427 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934926AbXJPU4y (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:56:54 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4715256E.4050609@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:56:14 +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: Theodore Tso , Matthew Wilcox , david@lang.hm, Alan Cox , Stefan Richter , Rob Landley , David Newall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer? References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710141836.55211.rob@landley.net> <4712FE33.3000400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <200710150426.04924.rob@landley.net> <20071015160800.GA324@parisc-linux.org> <47139F15.7050702@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20071016111911.30a18e12@the-village.bc.nu> <20071016195432.GA31306@parisc-linux.org> <20071016203449.GA1314@closure.lan> In-Reply-To: <20071016203449.GA1314@closure.lan> 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: 746 Lines: 19 Theodore Tso wrote: > Yet another reason why people who desperately are trying to cling to > the good old days of stable device enumerations are going to be > disappointed; Sure enough; stable device enumeration is a thing of the past. This doesn't have to stop us though from providing speaking default names for device files, just like we already provide speaking default names for network interfaces. (Not for all, but for many.) -- 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/