linux-kernel - Re: Libata PATA status

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Message-ID: <20070704131746.4bbe4d0e@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jul 2007 13:17:46 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: Libata PATA status

On 04 Jul 2007 15:00:26 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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
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