From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd_many done right (1/5) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:28:58 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020726232858.GB24008@kroah.com> References: <20020726154533.GD19721@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> <20020726165411.GI19721@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020726165411.GI19721@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff , Linux SCSI list , Linux kernel list On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:54:11PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Hi Al, > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:45:41PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > The patches are all available at > > > http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/ > > > > As long as you realize that it won't go in 2.5 in that form... > > The sd parts can and should be ported to 2.5, I think. > The /proc/scsi/scsi extensions and other stuff I wrote to support it, > won't be needed, as we have driverfs in 2.5. > And, of course, the device number management will be solved in a more > general way, but I do not yet see how. Why that's quite simple (with apologies to South Park) : 1) finish the driver model code and banish devfs to a corner of the kernel where it will not do any harm. 2) {silence} 3) Purely dynamic major and minors now work. :) It will happen, eventually. Most of us are busy laying the groundwork right now... thanks, greg k-h