Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Sun, 20 May 2001 21:53:00 +0200


Hi!

> > Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
> > echo "hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda" >/dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
> > the system can even send back result codes that way.
>
> Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would prefer a
> different command set.

Alan, bad idea.

This is less evil than magic numbers, and *users* should not be
touching this anyway. They should have nice gui tools that do it for
them.

English is *way* better than magic numbers. It makes sense at least
for someone.
Pavel

-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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