Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:25:13 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel |
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:13:51AM -0400, 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.
Is there a dm-$partition.ko that assigns a bunch of dm-N devices per partition table entry? Or can all that be done from userland, parsing the on-disk partition table and create dm-N devices to access everything thats accessible now? - 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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