From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:43:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation Message-Id: <20071211194325.GY22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <1197389316.25082.27.camel@quest> <20071211162538.GR22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> <1197391333.25082.31.camel@quest> <20071211170352.GS22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> <1197393526.25082.36.camel@quest> <3ae72650712110951h477d1fc0hd9abd39f069da105@mail.gmail.com> <20071211180829.GW22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> <1197397532.2579.26.camel@lov.site> In-Reply-To: <1197397532.2579.26.camel@lov.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kay Sievers Cc: device-mapper development , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > So we would need to strip the upper 32 bit of the numbers we see from > udev, and handle the case where the 32 bit number wraps around. Should be OK I think. Otherwise we can append a 64-bit field to the struct - with care, this can be done without breaking compatibility. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel