From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: lots and lots of disks again Date: 12 Feb 2004 11:43:03 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1076604183.2576.89.camel@mulgrave> References: <20040210133932.A3870@infradead.org> <20040210154751.GH4010@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040210102603.0c835212.akpm@osdl.org> <20040211145614.GA4010@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040211132848.49eece0d.akpm@osdl.org> <20040211220918.GJ4010@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040211142933.484ca978.akpm@osdl.org> <20040211225348.GM21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212150035.GN1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040212155721.GS21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212161800.GU1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat1.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.130]:32426 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266506AbUBLQnL (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:43:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040212161800.GU1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, SCSI Mailing List , pbadari@us.ibm.com, willy@debian.org On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:18, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Unless we go for the gendisk aliasing suggestion from James and allocate > a new major additionally. I did not yet check whether it's feasible. Well, I've had my ear bent about gendisk aliasing not being feasible, so to use the new major scheme, we'd have to have something like a boot time switch in the kernel and only register either the old majors or the new major. James