Re: OF disk naming scheme (Re: another regression on Efika)

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:16:16AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:26:27PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > What naming/numbering scheme does this follow when you add more disks?
> > 
> > hd, hd1, hd2. Luckily Mozillion has Firewire disks.
> 
> My Efika counts: hd, hd0 ...
> 
> IEEE 1275 does not seem to cover this.  What scheme should we follow when
> generating device.map ?

Since "hd, hd1, hd2 ..." seems to be much more common, I propose we use that
and let user override it via device.map in case of disparity (which may only
happen in systems with more than 1 disk).

See attached patch.

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