From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:51:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030127225125.A13617@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030124182952.GF20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>; from Joel.Becker@oracle.com on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> How are they allocated? Is this dynamic, or compiled in? In
> addition, what is the maximum amount? If it's less than 1000 disks,
> it's too small for today. If it's less than 2000 disks, it's probably
> too small for 2.6's lifetime.
Currently it's compiled in, and the trivial change to make it use
register_blkdev with a 0 major argument until all globally unused majors
are gone is left to the reader..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 21:56 Fwd: 32bit dev_t Douglas Gilbert
2003-01-22 17:18 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-01-22 23:55 ` Tim Pepper
2003-01-23 0:51 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-23 18:31 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-23 22:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-24 8:20 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-24 18:29 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-27 22:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-28 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-28 15:19 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-28 16:33 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-28 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 17:09 ` New model for managing dev_t's for partitionable block devices Steven Dake
2003-01-29 1:41 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-29 16:45 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-29 17:38 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-01-29 18:00 ` Kurt Garloff
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