From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: ecashin@noserose.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:07:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050328170735.GA9567@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111677688.29912@geode.he.net>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:21:28AM -0800, ecashin@noserose.net wrote:
>
> support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig
>
> Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
>
> diff -uprN a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-03-07 17:37:58.000000000 -0500
> +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-03-10 12:19:54.000000000 -0500
> @@ -506,4 +506,19 @@ config ATA_OVER_ETH
> This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
> devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
>
> +config AOE_PARTITIONS
> + int "Partitions per AoE device" if ATA_OVER_ETH
> + default "16"
> + help
> + The default is to support 16 partitions per aoe device. Some
> + systems lack good support for devices with large minor
> + numbers.
> +
> + Such systems will be able to use more aoe disks when
> + AOE_PARTITIONS is set to one, but you won't be able to
> + partition the disks, and you must make sure your device
> + nodes are created to work with the value you select.
> +
> + If unsure, use 16.
> +
NACK. this changes devices nodes based on a compile-time option. Just
tell people to update their userland to a 2.6-copatible version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-28 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-03-17 23:46 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [1/12]: remove too-low cap on minor number Greg KH
2005-03-18 20:13 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-18 20:14 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [4/12]: handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir Ed L. Cashin
2005-03-24 14:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [1/12]: remove too-low cap on minor number ecashin
2005-03-24 15:09 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [2/12]: allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr ecashin
2005-03-24 15:13 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [3/12]: update driver version to 6 ecashin
2005-03-24 15:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [4/12]: handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir ecashin
2005-03-24 15:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool ecashin
2005-03-24 15:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-24 17:04 ` ecashin
2005-03-24 17:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-25 14:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-29 12:31 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-24 15:19 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [6/12]: Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup ecashin
2005-03-24 15:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig ecashin
2005-03-28 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-03-29 16:06 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-29 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-29 16:48 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-29 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-07 18:28 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-07 18:49 ` Greg KH
2005-04-07 18:56 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-07 23:08 ` Greg KH
2005-04-08 13:54 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-24 15:23 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [8/12]: document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev ecashin
2005-03-24 15:25 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [9/12]: add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation ecashin
2005-03-24 15:27 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [10/12]: Randy Dunlap: avoid warnings on sparc64 ecashin
2005-03-24 15:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [11/12]: add support for disk statistics ecashin
2005-03-24 15:32 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [12/12]: send outgoing packets in order ecashin
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