On Fri 05 Jul at 16:54:20 -0700 torvalds@transmeta.com done said:
>
> The other thing that we should sort out eventually is the unified naming
> for disk devices, now that both IDE and SCSI are starting to have some
> support for driverfs. Let's make sure that we _can_ have sane ways of
> accessing a disk, without having to care whether it is IDE or SCSI or
> anything else.
...and a way that scales better when naming large numbers of disks than
disk_name()'s stuff like:
sprintf(buf, "sd%c%c", 'a' + unit / 26, 'a' + unit % 26);
t.
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