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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.
Ian Pratt wrote:
>> This seems to be pretty evil and creating interesting failure
>> conditions for users who load IDE or SCSI modules. I've seen
>> it trip up a number of people in the past. I think we should
>> only ever use the major number that was actually allocated to us.
>>
>
> We certainly should be pushing everyone toward using the 'xdX' etc
> devices that are allocated to us. However, the installers of certain
> older distros and other user space tools won't except anything other
> than hdX/sdX, so its useful from a compatibility POV even if it never
> goes into mainline, which I agree it probably shouldn't.
>

Then perhaps we should deprecate non xd block devices starting in the
near future (3.0.3?). We probably need to have it deprecated for a few
releases since I think most people are not using xd at this point...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian
>

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