From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:20:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030124082035.GA3243@nbkurt.garloff.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030123221805.A2468@infradead.org>
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Hi Christpoh,
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:18:05PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> 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.
In the 2.4 patches I allocate majors dynamically.[1]
I was expecting that that part of the patch would need to be rewritten
for 2.5.
And of course sysfs, once it is complete (i.e. include char devices)
would replace the device reporting hack.
[1] http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/
Regards,
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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-24 8:20 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
2003-01-24 8:20 ` Kurt Garloff [this message]
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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