From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130430064530.GA2036@frolo.macqel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130430064152.GK9563@kernel.dk>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:41:52AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29 2013, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> >
> > so sda is 8,0 and sdb is 8,16
> >
> > and if, while discovering partitions of /dev/sda, I try to make a
> > partition 16 or higher, it is silently discarded by 'put_partition'.
> >
> > Is that changed ?
>
> That's a set limitation of sd, it does not apply to other devices. The
> legacy IDE code used 64 for max partitions, for instance. So Karel is
> right, you should not make any assumptions about the max number of
> partitions, it is driver dependent.
I replaced that by state->limit in the v2 series.
Philippe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 21:10 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add aix lvm partitions support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 1/5] partitions/msdos.c: end-of-line whitespace and semicolon cleanup Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 9:37 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 11:40 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 12:36 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 15:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2013-04-30 6:45 ` Philippe De Muyter [this message]
2013-04-29 21:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:08 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-01 5:35 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 3/5] partitions/msdos: enumerate also AIX LVM partitions Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 4/5] partitions/Makefile: compile aix.c if configured Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 5/5] partitions/Kconfig: add the AIX_PARTITION entry Philippe De Muyter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-29 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/5] partitions: add AIX LVM support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-20 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 7:27 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-24 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-24 10:58 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-08-12 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-12 12:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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