Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:03:11 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Increasing IDE Channels |
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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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