Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:49:00 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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> > Ugh, it will miss the _other_ CD-ROMs in your system. > > > > /dev/parport/cd > > /dev/pcmcia/cd > > /dev/usb/cd > > > > Doesn't look like the right way to me.
<serious replies only, I don't want flames for asking a question> Why bother seperating it out by interface? I'm just asking. It seems it would be better to go by controller/bus/id/lun[/partition] for all devices that connect to scsi, ide, usb, pcmcia, parport, etc. It could get ugly having all of them in the same machine, or we could do it with the device name beginning with h for ide (like it is now actually), p for parport, (pcmcia is just another bus like isa/pci to me so I feel it's irrelevent), s for scsi, u for usb. say: u0b0i0l0 is id 0 on first bus on first usb controller.. Obviously, I don't know if usb has more than 1 bus per controller, I know scsi does (used to have a dual channel adaptec eisa at one time)
> It is the right way. The concept is still valid. Just extend my > example code. It wasn't meant to be complete, just enough to convey > the idea. Did I really have to spell that out? > > Also, I expect that a PCMCIA CD-ROM will really be an IDE CD-ROM. A > parport CD-ROM will probably be either IDE or SCSI.
My thoughts exactly... Maybe just drop the p on the above then =) Aren't most parport devices either proprietary or ide anyway?
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