Re: Libata PATA status

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> You could probably reliably map "hda/b/c/d" initially with some kind of
> forwarder providing nobody hot plugged them.  Just not sure I see the

PATA hotplug? 

SATA systems typically already use /dev/sda*, it just applies to PATA.

> point of doing it kernel side.

The point would be that old user land just works without any changes.
I know that is a virtue that has gone out of fashion recently
with udev and sysfs, but older distributions that weren't
that sysfs-layout-of-the-week dependent used to be fairly kernel version
independent.  I always found that very useful.

The hda->sda move would be the only "radical" change that prevents booting for
a long time (the last one before that was the 2.5 modutils transition)

-Andi

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