On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly
> complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.
> 
> /dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean

Then make a '/proc/block/{ide|scsi|raid|wtf|ram|net}' which has a string
name for a real mknod thingy that includes the major|minor of the animal.

Is this simpler than the problem?


Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
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