From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:19:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030128151946.GH3267@E2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030128112840.A27734@infradead.org>
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Hi,
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:28:40AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.
You're supposed to use scsidev to create the device nodes beyond the
256 standard ones. It handles permissions. Based on CBTU addresses (or
optionally aliases that you may define using the serial no or WWID),
not the detection order.
Regards,
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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL
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SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE SCSI, Security
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-28 15:19 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
2003-01-28 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-28 15:19 ` Kurt Garloff [this message]
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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