From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Garloff Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:19:46 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030128151946.GH3267@E2.suse.de> 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> <20030128112840.A27734@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8sldprk+5E/pDEv" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128112840.A27734@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alan Cox , Joel Becker , Douglas Gilbert , Linux SCSI list --a8sldprk+5E/pDEv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >=20 > 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, --=20 Kurt Garloff Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers SuSE Labs (Head) SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE SCSI, Security --a8sldprk+5E/pDEv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Np+SxmLh6hyYd04RAjcIAKCfkVtQny79Int7ecaInUn6elvolQCfTeJS rCwdAxvHH+BdtsjPJBFVLsQ= =yBH5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8sldprk+5E/pDEv--