renaming /dev/hda to ./dev/sda

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Dec 20 17:42:06 UTC 2006


Bruno Wolff III (bruno at wolff.to) said: 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:32:51 -0800,
>   Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:
> > Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >Well, "we" I suppose is the kernel folks; this isn't exactly a Fedora
> > >decision and it isn't really new.
> > 
> > It's new for users - people who don't build their own kernels (assuming
> > they're using PATA disks).
> 
> No, it's new for users that don't have scsi disks. You don't need to be
> a kernel hacker to have run accross sd devices previously.
> 
> It seems reasonable to make this change for FC7. Whether it is a good idea
> for FC5 and FC6 is another question.

As far as I know, it's not planned for earlier releases.

Bill




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