From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262368AbUBYCBp (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:01:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262366AbUBYB7R (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:59:17 -0500 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]:11262 "EHLO TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262352AbUBYB6t (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:58:49 -0500 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Steven J. Hill" , Jeremy Higdon , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM... References: <40396134.6030906@realitydiluted.com> <20040222190047.01f6f024.akpm@osdl.org> <40396E8F.4050307@realitydiluted.com> <20040224061130.GC503530@sgi.com> <403B8108.6080606@realitydiluted.com> <20040224170906.GQ25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 25 Feb 2004 10:58:37 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20040224170906.GQ25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox 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'