From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:35:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BF2D4E.4090906@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BF2BAC.9070508@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
Currently it has to list /sys/block/DEV/DEV[-]N/. With proper
classification, it can do /sys/block/*/partitions/*. We'll need to keep
around symlinks at the root level. It also plays well with how other
subsystems have been changing.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 0:37 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
2008-09-04 0:35 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-09-04 0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-04 11:50 ` Jens Axboe
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