From James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com Fri Apr 11 21:12:28 2003
> It is me who wants compatibility as far as 8+8 device numbers are
> concerned, while I can see lots of ways to use new number space.
This, I'm not too sure about. I see the value to kernel developers who
boot between different versions of the kernel, but I think when 2.6 goes
live and ships to end users, it's better not to have such numeric
equivalency crufting up the SCSI interfaces.
I think compatibility is very important.
Linux does not arbitrarily break old systems. The aim must be
to have all combinations of (old/new) kernel with (old/new) glibc
to work well in all situations where old kernel + old glibc worked.
Andries
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