hey, On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 05:12:20PM -0500, scame...@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote: > It looks like these are called from a function called init_device_map() > that is called from grub_stage2() at least in the version of grub I looked > at (0.97, from rhel6). > > So my assumption is that adding a new block driver with yet another name space > would require adding another bit of code into grub like those above. When I > asked about "best practices" for new block driver device names on the grub > devel > mailing list to minimize required changes to grub, nobody argued against that > assumption.
I think we kinda need to get down to the root cause of the issue. Nothing against giving common names to devices in itself but there's a non-insigificant chance that we end up with something half-way if the original problem isn't properly understodd. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
