Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:23:13 -0600 (MDT) | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: devfs v21 & IDE cdrom |
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, mlord wrote:
> Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > mlord@pobox.com writes: > > > One problem with devfs: > > > > > > The directory /dev/ir should be /dev/ic instead. > > > > > > "c" stands for "cdrom", not "r". > > > > I see your point, but the way it is now makes it more like the SCSI > > name: /dev/sr/ > > It would be nice to have consistency between the two. I invite people > > to comment. > > Well, since it is me rather than you who is going to > continuously receive an extra 10 or so emails daily > from users about this, I'd really rather not have the hassle. > > For that matter, I think I'd still like to see all the IDE > stuff gathered under /dev/ide/, and using real names like > disk, tape, cdrom, floppy. > > Making things a lot easier for the end-user to figure out > will limit the support workload increase I anticipate from > this rather immensely. (Even to the point where I now think > that "ide" is a better name than "ata" for the subdir). > > Thanks > -- > mlord@pobox.com > The Linux IDE guy >
I agree here. I think that easy to use rather then short is much more helpful. We can even have things short! Something like:
/dev/ide0 /dev/ide1 /dev/ide2 /dev/ide3 ...
or even (heaven forbid):
/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd ...
And then have _additional_ links elsewhere such as: /dev/disk/ide-disk0 /dev/cdrom/ide-cd0 /dev/tape/ide-tape0 /dev/floppy/ide-floppy0
or something.
If the user is supposed to figure out some coded form like /dev/ic/b0l0p0q1n9
there had better be a _damn_ good reason. I don't consider there to be such a a compelling reason for the ide bus, since the existing numbering scheme /dev/hd[a-f] already uniquely identifies each device. If somebody removes /dev/hdc, the device at /dev/hdb doesn't change.
The reason the scsi scheme is so wierd, convoluted, indecipherable, and strange is that with the existing scsi interface, when you remove /dev/sr2 that /dev/sr1 was getting renamed.
Lets not impose a unnecessary but compatable "fix" for ide, since ide doesn't have the problem that the fix was invented for. I say that we use names that are human readable! I really don't want names that are short and concise. devfs supports long filenames, right? Lets use them.
-Erik
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