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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:18:22AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> For just one example of API breaking see
> 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175998
> 
> This breaks stuff for end users in a stable distribution. Not good.

That's not an API breakage.  The API is left untouched, the driver
now just reports the attached device as what it is.  If HAL wasn't
a piece of cargo-cult programming crap you'd see in the relevant
standards what scsi device types exist, or even better stop relying
on such low-level knowledge.  It's a disk if sd_mod attaches to it
is a much better rule than relying on lowlevel SAM details.