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DateWed, 4 Jul 2007 13:17:46 +0100
FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: Libata PATA status
On 04 Jul 2007 15:00:26 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > > Post SRST 
> What is SRST?
> 
> My personal wish list feature would be a little forwarder driver
> to forward /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* for this; then old IDE could be
> disabled without risking breaking old root file systems.

That would be udevd for new systems or "ln -s" for old ones ? 

I don't see a way to build that "simple" forwarder because the device
allocation is now dynamic rather than tied to specific device on specific
port - a concept with really no meaning any more.

Alan
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