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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: 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: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:51:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030127225125.A13617@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030124182952.GF20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>; from Joel.Becker@oracle.com on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	How are they allocated?  Is this dynamic, or compiled in?  In
> addition, what is the maximum amount?  If it's less than 1000 disks,
> it's too small for today.  If it's less than 2000 disks, it's probably
> too small for 2.6's lifetime.

Currently it's compiled in, and the trivial change to make it use
register_blkdev with a 0 major argument until all globally unused majors
are gone is left to the reader..

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-27 22:51 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
2003-01-24 18:29     ` Joel Becker
2003-01-27 22:51       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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