Re: What still uses the block layer?

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 16:57:26 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:
> Yet another reason why people who desperately are trying to cling to
> the good old days of stable device enumerations are going to be
> disappointed;

Sure enough; stable device enumeration is a thing of the past.

This doesn't have to stop us though from providing speaking default
names for device files, just like we already provide speaking default
names for network interfaces. (Not for all, but for many.)
--
Stefan Richter
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