Re: MDP major registration

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:57:06PM +0100, Hubert Verstraete wrote:
>Neil Brown wrote:
>>On Thursday March 13, hubskml@free.fr wrote:
>>>Neil,
>>>
>>>What is the status of the major for the partitionable arrays ?
>>
>>automatically determined at runtime.
>>
>>>I see that it is 254, which is in the experimental section, according to 
>>>the official Linux device list (http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/).
>>>Will there be an official registration ?
>>
>>No. Is there any need?
>
>I got this question in mind when I saw that mkfs.xfs source code was 
>referring to the MD major to tune its parameters on an MD device, while 
>it ignores MDP devices.
>If there were reasons to register MD, wouldn't they apply to MDP too ?

i don't think so:
bluca@percy ~ $ grep mdp /proc/devices
253 mdp

L.


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