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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:26:54 +0200
From: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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Subject: Re: Increasing IDE Channels
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Il Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:58:18AM -0400, Timothy Miller ha scritto: 
> >Because hwifs are statically allocated, see drivers/ide/ide.c:
> >
> >ide_hwif_t ide_hwifs[MAX_HWIFS];        /* master data repository */
> >
> >Also if names are ide0..ide9, the following would be ide: and ide; (see
> >init_hwif_data in drivers/ide/ide.c).
> >
> 
> Why wouldn't they be ide10 and ide11?

No:

static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *hwif, unsigned int index)
{
        ...
        hwif->name[0]   = 'i';
        hwif->name[1]   = 'd';
        hwif->name[2]   = 'e';
        hwif->name[3]   = '0' + index;

'0' + 10 is ':' and '0' + 11 is ';'

Luca
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