Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:06:45 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 |
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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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