Re: Increasing IDE Channels

[Timothy Miller]

Kronos wrote:
> Il Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:58:18AM -0400, Timothy Miller ha scritto: 
>
> > > Because hwifs are statically allocated, see drivers/ide/ide.c:
> > >
> > > ide_hwif_t ide_hwifs[MAX_HWIFS];        /* master data repository */
> > >
> > > Also if names are ide0..ide9, the following would be ide: and ide; (see
> > > init_hwif_data in drivers/ide/ide.c).
> >
> > Why wouldn't they be ide10 and ide11?
>
>
> No:
>
> static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *hwif, unsigned int index)
> {
>         ...
>         hwif->name[0]   = 'i';
>         hwif->name[1]   = 'd';
>         hwif->name[2]   = 'e';
>         hwif->name[3]   = '0' + index;
>
> '0' + 10 is ':' and '0' + 11 is ';'
>
> Luca


I understand WHY it's ':' and ';'.  I still think it's a bug.  Solaris 
rolls from 9 to 10, 11, etc.

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