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SubjectRe: Increasing IDE Channels


Kronos wrote:
> Il Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:58:18AM -0400, Timothy Miller ha scritto:
>
>>>Because hwifs are statically allocated, see drivers/ide/ide.c:
>>>
>>>ide_hwif_t ide_hwifs[MAX_HWIFS]; /* master data repository */
>>>
>>>Also if names are ide0..ide9, the following would be ide: and ide; (see
>>>init_hwif_data in drivers/ide/ide.c).
>>>
>>
>>Why wouldn't they be ide10 and ide11?
>
>
> No:
>
> static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *hwif, unsigned int index)
> {
> ...
> hwif->name[0] = 'i';
> hwif->name[1] = 'd';
> hwif->name[2] = 'e';
> hwif->name[3] = '0' + index;
>
> '0' + 10 is ':' and '0' + 11 is ';'
>
> Luca


I understand WHY it's ':' and ';'. I still think it's a bug. Solaris
rolls from 9 to 10, 11, etc.

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