From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:28:40 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030128112840.A27734@infradead.org> References: <3E2DC21D.9010204@torque.net> <20030123183131.GA2126@nbkurt.garloff.de> <20030123221805.A2468@infradead.org> <20030124182952.GF20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030127225125.A13617@infradead.org> <1043752867.1328.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1043752867.1328.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0000 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Joel Becker , Kurt Garloff , Douglas Gilbert , Linux SCSI list On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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.. > > Which leaves the non trivial change of figuring out a usable security > model when doing that. I've yet to see one That's why I didn't implement it. Ask the SuSE folks, they already ship the dynamic majors for sd hack in their 2.4-based tree.