From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unified device list allocator
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:31:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308063127.GA2475@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308061155.GK3120@waste.org>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:11:55PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > - when called with the major argument as 0 it returns an unused major number
> > from the top of the old 255 entries major list. This should be replaced
> > by a real dynamic dev_t allocator, similar to alloc_chrdev_region.
>
> Umm, this replaces alloc_chrdev_region too. If instead you mean "let's
> migrate all the users to a sensible interface", I agree. And that
> means killing alloc_chrdev_region too. (baseminor makes no sense for
> dynamic allocation - you either know your prefered major and minor or
> you know neither.)
The thing is this blkdev_register useage should be replace by an API
like alloc_chrdev_region. I don't particularly care about the actual
implementation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 5:18 [PATCH] unified device list allocator Matt Mackall
2005-03-08 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-08 5:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-08 6:11 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-08 6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-03-08 6:35 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-08 6:01 ` Matt Mackall
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