From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
To: ptb@it.uc3m.es, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: One more question about the linux md driver
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:28:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E959BA3.4DA2B8FD@SteelEye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E9595F8.AC72CC1F@SteelEye.com
Paul Clements wrote:
> to use dev_unit() (which basically masks out the minor number from a
> kdev_t, leaving the major number).
...that's not exactly what I meant to say... :)
The minor_shift determines which portion of the device number represents
the "partition" and which portion represents the "disk". The division is
not necessarily along the major/minor line.
--
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-10 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 14:46 One more question about the linux md driver Peter T. Breuer
2003-04-10 16:04 ` Paul Clements
2003-04-10 16:28 ` Paul Clements [this message]
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