lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Apr]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist
marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl wrote:
...
> - change device numbers for IDE CD-ROMs so that they are
> different than those of IDE hard disks (after all, they are
> completely different devices which just happen to share the
> same hardware interface) for consistency with SCSI devices
> (where disk and cdrom with the same SCSI ID are different -
> as they should), and to avoid fdisk -l trying to read the
> partition table from a CD-ROM or (worse) empty CD-ROM drive.

Either fix fdisk(8) to not try and read partition table
info for non-disks (it can use /proc/ide/*/media for this),
or incorporate devfs to obtain drive-type-specific naming.
--
mlord@pobox.com
the Linux IDE guy

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:42    [W:0.078 / U:0.324 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site