Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:29:30 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Libata PATA status |
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> You could probably reliably map "hda/b/c/d" initially with some kind of > forwarder providing nobody hot plugged them. Just not sure I see the
PATA hotplug?
SATA systems typically already use /dev/sda*, it just applies to PATA.
> point of doing it kernel side.
The point would be that old user land just works without any changes. I know that is a virtue that has gone out of fashion recently with udev and sysfs, but older distributions that weren't that sysfs-layout-of-the-week dependent used to be fairly kernel version independent. I always found that very useful.
The hda->sda move would be the only "radical" change that prevents booting for a long time (the last one before that was the 2.5 modutils transition)
-Andi
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