http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954452
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954452#c10
--- Comment #10 from Olaf Hering
(In reply to Olaf Hering from comment #8)
The strings for a given block device are "free strings", that means a given block driver is free to pick any name. It just happend that IDE used to pick hd, SCSI picked "sd" and so on. In the early days the PV drivers used to claim the well known names and their major:minors to make it easier to install and run existing distros.
Not really, the device name is given based on what layer is used, for
It depends on what is passed to "blockdev_alloc(name, major, minor)" (siplified, whatever the exact function name is). And of course every block driver is free to pick any value of "name". If its already taken it gets -EBUSY. My point is that the "hd" code is not only connected to IDE hardware, but also to the xen frontend driver. Is it difficult to restore and maintain that removed code for upcoming releases? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.