[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 linux kernel & wifi

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 06 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > At the boot time the system hang looking for root device , and after a while
> > i figured out that device name changed and all i need to do is to replace in
> > kboot.conf    sda1 with ps3da1 and so on .. I  wonder if this is normal or
> > did i miss something ?
> 
> Indeed. The old storage driver used the SCSI framework, while the new one (at
> least the disk part) uses the block layer directly. Hence the new device names
> `ps3d' instead of `sd'.

Is there any reason why you chose the notation with drive letters (ps3da, ps3da1)
instead of numbers (ps3d0, ps3d0p0)? My impression was that the latter is preferred
for new drivers, but I could be missing something.

	Arnd <><