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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Linux-nvme" Errors-To: linux-nvme-bounces+linux-nvme=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2021/04/07 18:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:36:22AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote: >> The SCSI generic devices are named /dev/sgX while the SCSI block devices >> are named /dev/sd*, so the names are more distinct compared to /dev/nvme* >> and /dev/nvme-generic-*. >> >> A "regular" Linux user who writes /dev/sd will not see the SCSI >> generic devices, but with the current proposal, if he writes >> /dev/nvme, he will see the NVMe generic devices. >> >> I just had a gut feeling that this could cause confusion in the future. >> However, I trust your experience and judgement more than my gut feeling. > > Should we call the nodes /dev/ng* ? That would be a nice symmetry with scsi / sg. I am all for it. This would also make it easier to read a "ls" output, avoiding a lot of nvme device names that differ only by 1 character ("c"). > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-nvme mailing list > Linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvme > -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research _______________________________________________ Linux-nvme mailing list Linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvme