From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 stability and the BK scsi trees
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:31:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017133129.A27349@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F8E8786.2020502@torque.net>; from dougg@torque.net on Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:56:54PM +1000
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:56:54PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> What was the point of putting 32 dev_t's into the
> kernel? Many people who were advocating it used
> the increased number of scsi disks (> 256) and
> partitions (from 15 to 63 [to match the ide subsystem])
> as a major reason.
>
> The sd driver is still littered with hacks to distribute
> its 256 (max) disks over 8 majors. Shouldn't this be
> fixed?
>
> Comments?
I agree with you that there's some late features that need
to be addresses, and the larger dev_t probably is number
one on that list. But with Linus' policy having two trees
is the best thing James can do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-16 0:59 2.6.0 stability and the BK scsi trees James Bottomley
2003-10-16 11:56 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-10-16 13:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-18 15:24 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-18 16:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-20 14:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-10-17 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-10-22 14:23 ` James Bottomley
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