RE: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

["Mukund JB." <mukundjb@esntechnologies.co.in>]

Dear Lenneart,

>Most common for disk devices is XXYZ where XX is some name for the
>driver (hd for ide, sd for scsi, other things for other drive types), Y
>is a letter (a for first, b for second, c for third, etc) and Z is the
>partition number.  So in your case you could have:
>
>tfaa for first slot
>tfaa1 for first partition on first slot.
>tfab for second slot
>tfab4 for 4th partition on second slot.
>Or call it tf and use tfa1 tfb4 etc.

That's fine.
My controller itself alone handle FOUR device at a time (u mea these
should be (tfa, b , c d)
But how do I represent if I have more than one such controller i.e. it
is more 4 devices each with more parttions again.

Thanks & Regards,
Mukund Jampala


>
>> I have four sockets on which I have to support individual device with
>> partitions on them. Is there a better conventional way to represent
all
>> the four devices? My driver also supports 4 such controllers. To
support
>> first socket device on the second controller I am using tfb0, tfb0p1,
>> tfb0p2...
>
>Well at least ide and scsi don't care which controller, they still just
>name them in order.  You could just use tfa up to tfp for the devices.
>That is what I would do unless the seperate controllers really make
more
>sense to users (counting to slot 16 might be a bit much using letters
>for some users).
>
>Maybe tf1a2 for controller 1 slot a partition 2 would be nicer to the
>user.  Some raid cards do use /dev/raidname/c1d2p3 for card 1 device 2
>partition 3.  Maybe you prefer that arangement.
>
>> I have left with handling lot of generalization in the code.
>
>Len Sorensen
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