Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:03:33 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] block: Add new generic block device naming interface |
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hey,
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 05:12:20PM -0500, scameron@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
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