On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:34:38AM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On the libata list they occasionally fantasize about a day when libata will be a full fledged driver and not stuck underneath the scsi stack. It really doesn't belong there. sata does not truly follow the scsi standard, so its a force fit.
When they have their flights-of-fantasy discussions, they talk about /dev/hd being a new universal name to represent all hard disks.
That would be nice, but then again, is a sd card a "hard disk"? Having all storage devices with the same namespace of "sd*" is the main thing that is important, and is what we finally accomplished. Changing the 2 characters to something else, as long as all devices use it, wouldn't be a big deal :)
Who knows if it will ever happen. It's been in the todo list for 5+ years I think.
I doubt it will, but it's nice to know the libata developers still are dreaming of it, thanks for letting us know. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org