[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20071015185627.GA7236@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:56:28 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@...erone.com.au>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like
> it, complain to them.
Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the
reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We
did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just
transition everything to UUIDs instead.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists