Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 17:37 schrieb Jörn Engel:
> On Wed, 26 February 2003 17:19:15 +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > We're using hex numbers to identify devices in most places. We should use
> > them in filesystem messages, errors etc. too, this would be much more
> > consistent and avoids things like this where two different naming styles
> > for the same error are used:
> >
> > end_request: [...] dev 16:45 (hdd), sector 9175248
> > EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,69)): [...] inode=575269,
> > block=1146906
> >
> > With this patch the second message would look like this:
> >
> > EXT3-fs error (device ide1(16:45)): [...] inode=575269,
> > block=1146906
>
> Whis is _horrible_. Am I supposed to guess that ide does not use major
> 16, so it will be 0x16 == 22 instead?
Of course, I know. But then we have to fix the end_request stuff also. And
root=831 command line etc. This _is_ ugly. I just tried to make it one kind
of ugly at all.
Eike
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