From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:18:05 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030123221805.A2468@infradead.org> References: <3E2DC21D.9010204@torque.net> <20030123183131.GA2126@nbkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123183131.GA2126@nbkurt.garloff.de>; from kurt@garloff.de on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:31:31PM +0100 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff , Douglas Gilbert , Linux SCSI list 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.