From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:18:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030123221805.A2468@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030123183131.GA2126@nbkurt.garloff.de>; from kurt@garloff.de on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:31:31PM +0100
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> I'm also still waiting for the dev_t changes to port my 2.4 patches to
> support many hard disks (2k) to 2.5.
> Maybe the port should just be started now?
> Any taker? (I'm a bit short on time, so it won't happen before mid Feb
> if I have to do it myself.)
the Linux 2.5 sd and sr drivers are only limited by the number of majors
allocated to them. There's no more architectural limit or any global
array.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-23 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 21:56 Fwd: 32bit dev_t Douglas Gilbert
2003-01-22 17:18 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-01-22 23:55 ` Tim Pepper
2003-01-23 0:51 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-23 18:31 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-23 22:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-24 8:20 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-24 18:29 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-27 22:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-28 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-28 15:19 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-28 16:33 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-28 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 17:09 ` New model for managing dev_t's for partitionable block devices Steven Dake
2003-01-29 1:41 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-29 16:45 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-29 17:38 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-01-29 18:00 ` Kurt Garloff
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