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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: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BF2BAC.9070508@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BF2AEB.1050508@kernel.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>> (a) we can't do anything about, but (b) we can, by introducing a
>> partition number attribute in sysfs.
> 
> Yeah, that would certainly be a nice addition.  Also, if partitions
> are made proper classes, they'll be easily enumerable by
> /sys/block/*/partitions/*.
> 
> Jens, what do you think?
> 

Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since 
existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look 
for the partition directories anyway.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04  0:28 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
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 [this message]
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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