Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.

[Anthony Liguori]

Ian Pratt wrote:
> > This seems to be pretty evil and creating interesting failure 
> > conditions for users who load IDE or SCSI modules.  I've seen 
> > it trip up a number of people in the past.  I think we should 
> > only ever use the major number that was actually allocated to us.
> >     
>
> We certainly should be pushing everyone toward using the 'xdX' etc
> devices that are allocated to us. However, the installers of certain
> older distros and other user space tools won't except anything other
> than hdX/sdX, so its useful from a compatibility POV even if it never
> goes into mainline, which I agree it probably shouldn't. 
>   

Then perhaps we should deprecate non xd block devices starting in the 
near future (3.0.3?).  We probably need to have it deprecated for a few 
releases since I think most people are not using xd at this point...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian
>   

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