From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:43:46 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030411154345.GV31739@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <200304101339.49895.pbadari@us.ibm.com> <200304101825.12299.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from inet-mail4.oracle.com ([148.87.2.204]:5076 "EHLO inet-mail4.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261783AbTDKVPT (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:15:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304101825.12299.pbadari@us.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:25:12PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > I can't see (2) happening easily. I know that Greg KH is working on > udev (/dev/ memory filesystem). Once that happens, we have to change > drivers/subsystems (we need) to make dynamic allocation. All of this Is > going to happen for 2.6 ? Just to be clear, let's not repeat the devfsd fiasco. If we have dynamic update of device nodes (we need it), I want it to work with my /dev on ext3. Joel -- "You look in her eyes, the music begins to play. Hopeless romantics, here we go again." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127