From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:55:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307225517.GF2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307221217.GB21315@kroah.com>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:12:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5
> > stream. Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?
>
> Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the
> lateness of it? I didn't think it was going to happen.
This is essential. There are installations using >1000 disks
today (on other OSes, generally). It can't wait another 2.5 years.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 19:32 [PATCH] register_blkdev Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 22:12 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:45 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:50 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08 1:03 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-09 2:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-10 4:46 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-08 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 19:37 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:00 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 22:55 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-03-07 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-07 23:38 ` John Cherry
2003-03-07 23:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 1:58 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 2:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 2:42 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 19:31 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 21:39 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 4:32 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09 5:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 20:59 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:26 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:57 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:53 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org>
2003-03-08 19:29 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:41 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 22:16 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 17:31 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 23:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 5:08 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-03-17 19:21 ` Steven Dake
2003-03-07 19:50 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 18:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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