Re: identifying module types

2006-12-08 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 06:02:31PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 06:09 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > BTW, why not adding a type field for module tag. The type (which should be > > an UUID IMHO) should indicate the type of the module. > > One usage could be for Xen. On

Re: disk vs partition numbering

2006-12-08 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:46 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at > > 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 > > or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. > > No. It is consistent with most operating systems,

Re: identifying module types

2006-12-08 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 06:09 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > BTW, why not adding a type field for module tag. The type (which should be > an UUID IMHO) should indicate the type of the module. > One usage could be for Xen. On Xen you can load 3 modules: the linux kernel, > the linux ramdisk and an