From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>,
Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...
Date: 25 Feb 2004 10:58:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoishvyl6a.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040224170906.GQ25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> sr0 whole disc
> sr0a ... sr0o partitions
> sr1, sr1a ... sr1o
>
> It's probably too late to be consistent with discs and call them
> sra, sra1, ... sra15
> srb, srb1, ... srb15
The (BSDish) xx0a convention is arguably better anyway (because the
various parts of the name split naturally along the letter-digit
boundaries); I never quite figured out why linux used the convention it
does for disks.
[Of course consistency generally wins out over niceness, but where
consistency isn't an option...]
-Miles
--
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 2:11 Steven J. Hill
2004-02-23 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 3:07 ` Steven J. Hill
2004-02-23 3:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 6:11 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-02-24 16:51 ` Steven J. Hill
2004-02-24 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-26 22:51 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-24 17:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-25 1:58 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-02-25 10:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-27 3:22 ` Bill Davidsen
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