From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760764AbXGDMLo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:11:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756518AbXGDMLf (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:11:35 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47146 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754849AbXGDMLe (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:11:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 13:17:46 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Re: Libata PATA status Message-ID: <20070704131746.4bbe4d0e@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070703185116.59c8f5f5@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04 Jul 2007 15:00:26 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Alan Cox 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