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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9
    Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

    > For some adapters, this is possible, for other it is not (at all). You
    > happen to be a maintainer of one for which it is possible, and thus your
    > point of view is quite different from mine - mine comes from USB and
    > other parts of the device world, where no order can even be defined.
    >
    > And because of that, I do not think that having the host adapters decide
    > what device gets what number is a good idea. They should provide the
    > information if they have it, but the final decision should definitely be
    > done in userspace, by the hotplug agent.
    >
    > Ie. it should be configurable.

    Partition labeling takes care of about 99% + 1% of
    the ordering problems for disk drives.


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