RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch

[Alexander Motin]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:47:26 +0300 Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>>   - make sure that you will be able to boot if your SATA disk devices 
>> name change from some ad4 to ada0;
> 
> Will it stay at adaX, or is it planned to move it to daX like other
> harddisks attached via SCSI? If it stays like it is now: what's the
> rationale to use a different name?

It is still point of discussion. I have arguments for 3 different options:
  da - PRO: habitual CAM/SCSI disk name; CONTRA: ATA disk uses 
completely separate ATA-native peripheral driver, it is difficult use 
the same name for two drivers and it IMHO looks ugly:
  ad - PRO: habitual ATA disk name; CONTRA: heavily conflicts with 
ATA_STATIC_ID ata(4) option device unit numbering, also the same driver 
name conflict, but a bit easier due to different parent bus;
  ada - PRO: perfect from internal infrastructure PoV; CONTRA: just 
unhabitual.

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Alexander Motin