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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about >> an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when >> libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration >> path in the far future. > > Unfortunately a symlink won't work because of compatibility issues. > /dev/hd supports more partitions, and a different set of ioctls. Anything that depends upon the extra partitions is going to have a difficult time regardless of whether or not they edit /etc/fstab to change "hda" into "sda" etc.. And libata already has sufficient ioctl compatibility for nearly all purposes with the old drivers/ide stuff. Yes, there are some more esoteric ioctls that I once implemented in drivers/ide that do not exist for libata, and nobody will miss them. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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