Re: IDE feature request

From: Alex Riesen (Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 09:28:15 EST


On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:21:17PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:09:34AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Fix ide.c to generate a b c d e f and you should be able to get 16.
> >Like this?
>
> you will get the same problem again, once someone is able to cram more than
> 16 IDE hosts into a box. Why not go for ide%d (ide0-9, ide10-99)?

"%x" ? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f ... 10 11 .. hdeadbeef :)

> If we go to idea - idef now, we will be stuck with that for ages.
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