Re: SATA disk device naming ?

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 18:38:39 EST


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:44:14PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > initrd is such a PITA at times, I wondered about something hacky like
> > sticking LABEL parsing for rootfs (marked init) into the kernel but
> > it's really gross.
> >
> > Ideally the initrd/initramfs process just needs better (userspace)
> > infrastructure to make it more reliable/easier.
>
> I'm waiting for udev to give me consistent device names easily.
> Then I can specify root=/dev/disk1 and not have to scan-all-100-disks
> for LABEL mounts.

What's missing from udev to let you do this today?

thanks,

greg k-h
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