From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: device@lanana.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: regarding major number of block extended devt
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BD9F36.8000704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BD3313.7090906@kernel.org>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Extended devt is scheduled for 2.6.28 merge and is currently using 259.
>> Can extended devt keep this major or should it use something else?
>
> Oops, I forgot to write information about ext devt.
>
> 259 block Block extended device numbers
>
> This is pool of dynamically allocated block device
> numbers. Currently, ide and sd overflows into this
> region if there are more partitions than the existing
> device number scheme can accomodate, but any block
> device can use it and it's not restricted to
> overflows.
>
It would seem better to simply use the high minors on the
already-existing ide and scsi majors?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 12:26 regarding major number of block extended devt Tejun Heo
2008-09-02 12:35 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-02 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-03 4:13 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-03 16:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-03 16:21 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-03 16:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-03 16:45 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-03 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-03 18:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-04 0:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-04 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-04 0:35 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-04 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-04 11:50 ` Jens Axboe
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